Ongoing Activities
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EMPWR: Computational Exploration of Molecules in the Context of Biological Pathway Networks
Joanne Luciano
Principal Investigator
Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences For two years prior to the creation of the W3C Health Care and Life Science SIG I worked behind the scenes to persuade the W3C to consider creating the SIG. I presented the work on BioPAX and contributed to the BioDASH demo and worked with John Wilbanks (then W3C Fellow, now at Science Commons) to create the first workshop meeting. I also made the case to several pharmaceutical companies through my consulting practice.
Translational Medicine Ontology I am currently actively involved in the creation of an ontology for Translational Medicine.
Influena Ontology (InfluenzO) Infectious Disease Ontology I am leading the coordination of and co-developing an extension to the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) for Influenza Research and Surveillance. The Influenza Ontology work in being undertaken at the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org) in collaboration with BioHealthBase and Gemina projects.
BIOPAX. Core Group Member involved in intimating the creation of a data exchange format for biological pathway databases. Procured partial support from the DOE and got it doubled in the second year. Represents BIOPAX at international conferences and workshops and coordinate development with the BioPathways Consortium and its constituents. (Since August 2002)
BioPathways Consortium Co-organizer and Steering Committee. The mission of the BioPathways Consortium is to catalyze the emergence and development of computational pathways biology, by building up a strong and coherent scientific community, sharing knowledge, facilitating collaborations, and fostering the development of methods and tools of wide interest to the community.
