Bibliomics Symposium

 

ELIXIR Workshop

WP8 : Scientific Literature Interdisciplinary Interactions Committee

 

 

 

 

October 24, 2008

Geneva, Switzerland

 

 

 

 

8:30-9:00 : Welcome coffee

 

9:00-9:30

Overview of the ELIXIR initiative & presentation of the state of the art (UKPMC…)

Kostas Repanas, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Alfonso Valencia

CNIO/Madrid, EBI/Cambridge

 

9:30-10:00

SPS Digest: Speeding up Human Annotation Using Multi-class Text Categorization

Christine Hoogland, Frédéric Ehrler, Frédérique Lisacek, Ron Appel, Patrick Ruch

Proteome Informatics Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

 

10:00-10:30

EAGLi: Engine for question-Answering in Genomic Literature

Julien Gobeill, Frédéric Ehrler, Imad Tbahriti. Anne-LiseVeuthey, Patrick Ruch

HUG/Medical informatics, HEG/Information & Libary science

 

10:30-11:00 : Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

@neurIST: Aneuryms prevention using Information Science Technology

Antoine Geissbühler

Medical informatics, University Hospitals of Geneva

 

11:30-12:00

Applying Text-Mining to Support Drug Discovery: A Pharma Case Study

Luca Toldo and Caroline Kant-Mareda

RKM Group, Merck & MerckSerono International

 

12:00-12:30

Chemistry patent retrieval track at TREC

Jianhan Zhu, John Tait, Dominique Maret

Information Retrieval Facility & MatrixWare AG

 

 

12 :30-14:00 – Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Round tables

RT1. Access to Advanced Biomedical Digital libraries

RT2. Clinical data repositories

 

16:00-16:30 – Wrap up

Chairs

Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Madrid

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, EBI, Cambridge

 

 

Steering committee

Patrick Ruch, HEG/ Information science & University Hospitals of Geneva

 

Presentations

30 minutes, including 10 minutes questions

 

 

 

 

Audience and registration

 

All those concerned with using digital textual contents (libraries contents, patents, clinical trials reports…) for life and health sciences are invited; in particular managers of patient records and clinical narratives, biomedical research librarians, drug designers, gene and gene product database curators, bioinformaticians and chemo-informaticians concerned with document and content management.

 

The meeting is free of charge but we intend to limit participation to allocate more time for discussions. Please register by sending the following information to patrick.ruch@hesge.ch:

 

Firstname :

Lastname :

Affiliation :

 

 

Venue

            Auditoire de Pédiâtrie

            Children Hospital

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

            Access map : see next page

 

Hotels

            Hotel Adriatica (near the hospitals) : http://www.hotel-adriatica.com/

            Hotel Longemalle (near the lake, cheaper and nicer) : http://www.longemalle.ch/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acknowledgements and sponsors

University Hospitals of Geneva, Medical Informatics Service

 

European Union Framework Program 7 - ELIXIR project         

 

 

University of Applied Science, College of Library Science      

 

 

 

 

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