SOBDAT 2007 Workshop Program

Room A

Session I: 10-11:30 a.m. - Opening Session

     Chair: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University

          Keynote : Application of Software Development Methods for Biological and Scientific Research (Abstract)

             Calton Pu, Professor, School of Computer Science and CERCS, Georgia Institute of Technology

Analysis of a Scientific Protocol: Selecting Suitable Resources (Abstract)

            Zoé Lacroix, Christophe Legendre, and Louiqa Raschid

 Lunch Break: 11:30-12:30

Session II : 12:30-2:00 p.m.  - Ontologies and Federated Applications

     Chair: Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Tech

Development of NeuronBank: A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neuronal Circuitry (Abstract)

Robert Calin-Jageman, Akshaye Dhawan, Hong Yang, Hsiu-Chung Wang, Hao Tian, Piyaphol

Phoungphol, Chad Frederick, Janaka Balasooriya, Yan Chen, Sushil K. Prasad, Raj Sunderraman,

Ying Zhu, and Paul S. Katz

XOA: Web-Enabled Cross-Ontological Analytics (Abstract)

Roderick M. Riensche, Bob L. Baddeley, Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Christian Posse, and Banu Gopalan

Bioinformatics Services Discovery Using Ontology Classification (Abstract)

Hervé Ménager, Zoé Lacroix, and Pierre Tufféry      

 PM Break: 2:00-2:15

Session III:  2:15-3:45p.m. – Analysis, Text Mining and Visualization

      Chair: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University

Data-aware SOA for Gene Expression Analysis Processes (Abstract)

            Dirk Habich, Sebastian Richly, Wolfgang Lehner, Uwe Assmann, Mike Grasselt, Albert Maier,

and Christian Pilarsky

Information Infrastructure for Text Mining of the Primary Scientific Literature:

Principles and Practice (Abstract)

            Gully Burns, Donghui Feng, Tommy Ingulfsen, and Eduard Hovy

            Bluejay: A Highly Scalable and Integrative Visual Environment for Genome Exploration (Abstract)

            Jung Soh, Paul M.K. Gordon, Andrew C. Ah-Seng, Andrei L. Turinsky, Morgan Taschuk, Krzysztof Borowski, and

            Christoph W. Sensen

    PM Coffee Break: 3:45-4:00

Session IV: 4:00-5:00 p.m. Panel Session

      Panel Theme: Future directions for service oriented technologies to biological databases and tools

       Moderator: Shamkant Navathe, Professor and Head, Database Research Group, College of Computing,   Georgia Institute of Technology

       Panelists:  To be assigned