C-SHALS

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C-SHALS
Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
Subevent of ISCB
Start 5 March 2008 (iCal)
End 8 March 2008
Homepage: Homepage
Location
City: Cambridge
Country: USA
Important dates
Abstracts due: 15 December 2008
Papers due: 15 January 2008
Submissions due: 15 January 2008
Notification: 15 February 2008
Camera ready due: 15 February 2008

C-SHALS is a new premier conference presented by the International Society for Computational Biology focused on the pharmaceutical applications of Semantic Technologies. It will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of practical semantics-based approaches to Drug R&D, organized along specific topics and moderated to induce interactive discussions around sets of key questions. The conference is intended for anyone interested in understanding how best to apply intelligent information technologies in Pharmaceutical R&D.


[edit] Proposed Vitrual Communities

  • Text Mining - Alan Ruttenberg(contact) (protein Thesaurus)
  • Text Mining & KR - Jim Golden(contact) (AI sentiment analysis, Decision markets)
  • Mode-of-Action modeling - Imran Shah(contact) (toxicity)
  • Comparison of RDF Approaches - Ernst Dow (contact) (Repositories)
  • Business Justifications for Semantic Web - William Hayes(contact) (RDF/Semantics)

[edit] Grand Challenges

  • Scalable RDF Data Stores
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