SWAT4LS 2015 Industry stream

It's been a great first day at SWAT4LS and I have been buying a few books in the lovely Cambridge University bookstore and had a nice conference dinner.

I'm now preparing for tomorrow's task to be the chair for the industry stream in SWAT4LS (see my previous blog post for more information about this event). So, here's a list of the 6 abstracts, companies and projects/tools that I'll introduce tomorrow morning:

1. The BioHub Knowledge Base: Ontology and Repository for Sustainable Biosourcing, Text Mining/NLP research group within the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester together with UniLever, BioHub Knowledge Base (BioHubKB)
2. Customizing “General SPARQL” for visualisation of in-house data in Cytoscape, General Bioinformatics, General SPARQL
3. GraphScope – smart data access for the life sciences, SearchHaus,  GraphScope
4. Semantic Technologies Make Sense for Life Sciences, SmartLogic
5. Advancing Knowledge Discovery for Alzheimer’s Disease: The Alzforum Experience, Alzforum
6. Everybody a Translational Data Scientist, Ontoforce, DISQOVER 

SWAT4LS 2015

Monday, 7th December, I will fly to Cambridge to attend the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) conference and also visit colleagues at the new AstraZeneca site. The conference programme looks interesting and the venue, Clare College, fantastic ("Harry-Potter-land" was my husband's comment when he saw the pictures :-).

I am very glad to be the chair for the Industry session on Wednesday morning. Here are a few items on the programme I find extra interesting, from my clinical and RWE data perspective:

• Tutorial on using Wikidata in the life sciences on Monday morning and the short paper presentation on Wednesday 
• Semantic Representations of Clinical Care and Clinical Trial Data tutorial on Monday afternoon and a poster Feasibility of Modeling HL7 FHIR Profiles Using RDF Shape Expressions Language
• ODM on FHIR: Towards Achieving Semantic Interoperability of Clinical Study Data in the main conference on Thuesday
• Cochrane PICO Annotator and PICOfinder: Using semantically-enabled evidence to find what works in health care demo on Wednesday
• A new Ontology Lookup Service at EMBL-EBI demo on Wednesday 
• Discussion panel on Wednesday with interesting participants, e.g. Harold Solbrig – Mayo Clinic, and Egon Willighagen – Maastricht Universit
• The hackathon at European Bioinformatics Institute on Thursday. (I'll not attend as I will meet colleagues onsite in the new offices.) 

Will be great fun to meet friends and colleagues in the Semantic Web community.

Checkout my Storify: SWAT4LS2015