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ERBI IT Special Interest Group event - 4th June 2008
Text mining - Finding Buried Treasure
The Trinity Centre, Cambridge SciencePark , Cambridge - map and directions
Arrive 16:15 for 16:45 start - Finish at 20:30
Text mining is rapidly becoming a critical strategic priority for the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry. Companies are turning to new technologies to mine the plethora of their internal knowledge repositories and the external scientific literature for key information which will help to find novel targets, innovative new medicines, biomarkers, drug safety indicators etc. Paradoxically much of the information and knowledge we need is stored away in databases, but it is extremely difficult to find, due to the vast volumes of written material, the complexity of biomedical terminology, and the difficulty in training computers to read and understand human languages. This short seminar will describe four approaches for mining scientific content to find critical information for pharmaceutical research.
ERBI have teamed up with CambiNet Limited and EACS in order to stage a series of high profile IT Special Interest Group events. These events will reveal and explore a variety of important information management strategies which are available to the core strategic decision makers working within the centres of European biotech excellence in the East of England.
Guest speakers
Richard Kidd, Head of Informatics, Royal Society of Chemistry Prospecting chemical and biochemical literature
The RSC's Project Prospect, which was the first application of semantic web technologies to primary research publishing, won the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation. We will discuss the problems with the conventional publication process which we tried to address, the development process, and successes and failures in applying new standards. We will look at the InChI and identifying chemical entities using text mining, using existing ontologies and building new ones, and their real-life application.
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Phil Hastings, Director Business Development, Linguamatics Finding Answers from Text for Life Sciences
An overview of the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to text mining for researchers and information specialists, its potential impact and benefits. The presentation will include case studies from pharma/biotech. We will also include some insight into current challenges and potential opportunities for text mining in the future. |
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Julie Barnes, Chief Scientific Officer, BioWisdom Ltd A new information format for a new information age
Julie will present opportunities to generate a new format for information, enabling us to better exploit the realms of historic literature and electronic information available. Case studies pertaining to drug safety will highlight the analytical power of assertional metadata for generating new insights for the purpose of pharmaceutical R&D. |
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Peter Murray-Rust, Unilever Centre for Informatics, Cambridge University The Chemical Semantic Web
The semantic web is set to change the way we think about and use information. By providing explicit descriptions of concepts we make them accessible to machines and open up the possibility of simple reasoning. Chemical Markup Language (CML) can describe substances, reactions, molecules, solid state, spectroscopy and recipes. If chemistry is published in this way we can then use machines to do most of the tedious and error-prone work such as searching, transforming between formats, and integrating into documents. The presentation will include a number of interactive demonstrations. |
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| Agenda | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 Arrive for drinks and networking | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 Introductions and welcome | |
| 17:00 - 17:35 Richard Kidd - 'Prospecting chemical and biochemical literature' | |
| 17:35 - 18:10 Phil Hastings - 'Finding Answers from Text for Life Sciences' | |
| 18:10 - 18:45 Julie Barnes - 'A new information format for a new information age' | |
| 18:45 - 19:20 Peter Murray-Rust - 'The Chemical Semantic Web' | |
| 19:30 - 20:30 Networking over drinks and buffet | |
During the evening buffet you will have ample opportunity to meet with allof the speakers and share your ideas and concerns with them, as well as network with your peers.
To register for this event and for more information please email martinbutler@erbi.co.uk |