OLW - Semantic Web Technologies in Biotech Research

Semantic Web Technologies in Biotech Research: The 'Semantic Web' is a vision for an evolved world-wide web where computers can automatically 'reason' about the contents of web resources. By embedding 'ontological meaning' into resources on the web, we can help computers to search for information, make comparisons and drive new scientific discoveries. I'll briefly discuss the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) technologies for the semantic web (XML, RDF, OWL) and some more user-friendly technologies for working with this information. We'll discuss the possibilities this technology could open for scientists in the future, and what its limitations may be.

Bio: Dan has studied molecular biology, medical genetics and software development. He has experience working in both academic labs and the biotech industry, where he specializes in 'next-generation' DNA sequencing.

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