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BonaTema project

BonaTema (Development of an ontology-based knowledge system containing biological information on yeast)

  • Funding: FWO (G.0229.03)

  • Partners: K.U. Leuven - ESAT-SCD

  • Period (yyyy-mm-dd): 2003-01-01 --- 2006-12-31

  • Members: Pieter Verheyden

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  • Summary: This project aims at the development of an ontology-based knowledge system containing biological information on yeast. Such a knowledge system will allow biologists and bioinformaticians to efficiently retrieve biological information on yeast and, most importantly, to use this knowledge in the analysis of microarray data. The knowledge system will contain a compilation of all available information on yeast together with gene expression data from relevant microarray experiments. Read the extended summary

  • Publications:
    1. Van Acker S., Spyns P., & Meersman R., Ontology-driven Mediation between Heterogenous Biological Data Sources. Technical Report 03, STAR Lab, Brussel, 2004.
    2. Spyns P., Van Acker S., Wynants M., Jarrar M. & Lisovoy A., Using a novel ORM-based ontology modelling method to build an experimental Innovation Router. In, Motta E., Shadboldt N., Stutt A. & Gibbins N.,(eds.), Engineering Knowledge in the Age of of the Semantic Web, 14th International Conference, EKAW 2004 Proceedings, LNAI 3257, pp. 82 - 98, 2004. Springer Verlag.
    3. Verheyden P. Deray T. & Meersman R., Semantic Mapping of Large and Complex Databases to Ontologies: Methods and Tools. Technical Report 25, STAR Lab, Brussel, 2004.
    4. Van Acker, S., Information management door middel van ontologies. Nieuwsbrief Faculteit Wetenschappen (20), 7-11, 2004.
    5. Hadzic M., Chang E., Wongthongtham P. & Meersman R., Disease ontology based grid middleware for human disease research study. Proceedings of the 30 th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2004. IEEE Press.
    6. Bouquet P., Niederée C., Muscogiuri C., Persides A. & Wynants M., Innovation Engineering for the Support of Scientific Discovery . Innovanet Deliverable #D4, ITC-IRST, Trento, 2003.