[MOBY-l] W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences

[Frank Gibbons]

Hi Catherine,

My presentations at the BOSC & BioPathways conferences went over fairly 
well (providers of centralized databases didn't like it so much though... 
;) Interestingly, though they didn't really advertise the fact, more and 
more protein/pathway databases are starting to provide web-service-based 
access. There's really a lot of excitement out there for applying 
semantic-web technologies to biology, and perhaps it's even reaching 
critical mass. Unfortunately, none of them was using MOBY (as far as I 
could tell), though awareness of MOBY as the canonical 
web-service-for-bioinformatics-framework seemed high.

So I heard about this workshop (W3C on semantic web for life sciences) at 
BioPathways, and I'm certainly interested in going, if I can convince my 
boss that that's a direction our lab should go. The fact that there's no 
travel involved on my part should make it easier to convince him....

BTW, I just joined the BioGraphNet project up to sourceforge two weeks ago 
(biographnet.sourceforge.net). Today is my first day back in the lab, so 
I'm going to try and get code up for those who are interested in taking a look.

-F

At 07:01 AM 8/9/2004, Catherine Letondal wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does someone from biomoby or s-moby go to this workshop?
>http://www.w3.org/2004/07/swls-cfp.html
>
>BTW, has someone heard of REWERSE in bioinformatics?
>http://rewerse.net/A2/
>(Adding Semantics to the Bioinformatics Web)
>
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>Catherine Letondal -- Pasteur Institute Computing Center
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