NIF Webinar Tuesday May 29, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT

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The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please Bradley Voytek as he discusses Automated Cognome Construction and Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation.

The following is a description of the Webinar:

Modern neuroscientific research stands on the shoulders of countless giants. PubMed alone contains more than 21 million peer-reviewed articles with 40-50,000 more published every month. Understanding the human brain, cognition, and disease will require integrating facts from dozens of scientific fields spread amongst millions of studies locked away in static documents, making any such integration daunting, at best. The future of scientific progress will be aided by bridging the gap between the millions of published research articles and modern databases such as the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA). To that end, we have analyzed the text of over 3.5 million scientific abstracts to find associations between neuroscientific concepts. From the literature alone, we show that we can blindly and algorithmically extract a “cognome”: relationships between brain structure, function, and disease. We demonstrate the potential of data-mining and cross-platform data-integration with the ABA by introducing two methods for semi- automated hypothesis generation. By analyzing statistical “holes” and discrepancies in the literature we can find understudied or overlooked research paths. That is, we have added a layer of semi-automation to a part of the scientific process itself. This is an important step toward fundamentally incorporating data-mining algorithms into the scientific method in a manner that is generalizable to any scientific or medical field.

Read the paper before the webinar at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027012001513

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Automated Cognome Construction and Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation
Presenter: Bradley Voytek
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday 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.

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