Workshop on Repositories and Biological/Medical Applications

Held on 13 and 14 July 2009 at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Manchester.

Presentations from the workshop are linked below.

13 July 2009

12:30-13:15 Registration and lunch
13:15-13:30 Welcome and introduction to the workshop
13:30 - 15:30 Repository Projects
• Jano van Hemert, University of Edinburgh - Next Generation Embryology
• Ann Borda and Jared Winton, VeRSI (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative) -
VeRSI projects in the life sciences
• Anthony Stell and Jipu Jiang, University of Glasgow - Clinical projects at NeSC - EuroDSD, Avert-IT, SHIP
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:30 Provenance, Text Mining
• Simon Miles, King's College London, Provenance and interoperability
• John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTeM - Text mining UK PubMed
17:30 - 18:00 Wrap up Day 1
19:30 Dinner

14 July 2009

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 11:30: e-Science, Workflows, Semantic Web
• Simon Woodman, Newcastle - e-Science Central
• David de Roure and Jits Bhagat, Universities of Southampton and Manchester -
myExperiment
• Eric Prud'hommeaux, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, TBC) - W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee
12:30-13:30 Researcher Perspective
• Guy Cochrane, European Bioinformatics Institute - European Nucleotide Archive
• Matthew Broadbent, Alex Tulloch, Robert Steward Institute of Psychiatry, King's
College London - Case Register Interactive Search (CRIS)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Final Discussions