NIF Webinar – January 19, 2010 / Topic: NCBO Annotator

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

Our next NIF Webinar is scheduled for January 19th, 2010. Please join Dr. Trish Whetzel from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) for an informative session about the Annotator Tool done by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO). Details follow.

Date and Time: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: NCBO Annotator
Presenters: Dr. Trish Whetzel
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

This Webinar will provide a demonstration of the NCBO Annotator, an ontology-based Web service used for annotation of textual metadata from public datasets with biomedical ontology concepts, thus facilitating data integration and translational discoveries. Through annotation or tagging of datasets with ontology concepts, unstructured free-text data becomes structured and standardized. Despite these benefits, wide-scale semantic annotation is not common due to the need for trained curators and lack of an ontology repository. We will go through the NCBO Annotator web service workflow and show how it provides an alternative to manual annotation through use of a fast and accurate concept recognition tool and access to almost two hundred ontologies from BioPortal and UMLS.

We really hope you can make it.

Thanks!