[Okmicroarray] RE: GENOMICS / PROTEOMICS / BIOINFORMATICS DISCUSSION GROUP

[Gusev, Yuriy (HSC)]

Subject:	FW: GENOMICS / PROTEOMICS / BIOINFORMATICS DISCUSSION GROUP

Dear Colleagues 

Speakers have been scheduled for the next three meetings 
of our Discussion Group sponsored by the Department of 
Microbiology & Immunology and the Department of Surgery 
and serving as a forum for BRIN participants and the OU Cancer Center.  
The next meeting will be held at   2:00 pm on Wednesday, March 31, 2003 
in the Biomedical Research Center, Room 109 located at 975 NE 10th St. 

We are pleased to announce that under the leadership of 
Yuriy Gusev, PhD and Jonathan Wren, PhD the process has been initiated 
to establish the Oklahoma Bioinformatics Society (OKBIOS). 
OKBIOS is a chapter of the Mid-South Computational Biology and 
Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS).  
They will also be applying for the status of regional affiliate 
with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) at a later date.  
There will be more regarding this at our meeting at the end of this month.  
If anyone would like further information about this before the next meeting 
please contact either Yuriy or Jonathan 

The presentation this month will be by:

	Jonathan Wren, Ph.D.
	Research Assistant Professor
	Advanced Center for Genome Technology (ACGT),
	Department of Botany and Microbiology
	University of Oklahoma / Norman

Title: 
Data-mining MEDLINE - a Model for Knowledge Discovery

Summary:
A defining feature of modern biomedical research is the explosion of data and information. 
This explosion has been generated in part by high-throughput technologies as well 
as the advancement of computational technologies and communications networks, 
gradually shifting the paradigm of biomedical research from the gathering of 
data to the location, assimilation and modeling of data. 
The scientific literature has been and remains the principle means by which 
scientific discoveries are reported, containing a wealth of information 
in a highly unstructured and unstandardized format. 
The amount of literature in MEDLINE is also growing exponentially, making a broad awareness 
of any one field difficult and knowledge of potentially relevant developments in other fields
 highly unlikely. Computational technology is well suited to handle this explosion of data and
 information, but poorly suited to make sense of it as humans do. 
A program called IRIDESCENT has been developed in an attempt to bridge this gap in human awareness. 
IRIDESCENT attempts to identify researched entities within MEDLINE records such as genes, diseases, 
phenotypes and drugs, find relationships between them, model them within a network, 
identify commonalities among these variables and infer new relations based upon known ones. 
So far, IRIDESCENT has had several successful applications.


The speaker April 28th will be Lloyd W. Sumner, Ph.D.;  
Staff Scientist & Head, Biological Mass Spectrometry; T
he Noble Foundation; Ardmore, OK 73401


For further information please call Darrin Akins at 46640 or Daniel J. Brackett at 12108.        

	We look forward to seeing you there.        


Daniel J. Brackett						Darrin R. Akins, Ph.D.
Professor & Director of Research					Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery						Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center			Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
								Tel: (405) 271-8668 e-mail: 			
Research   Physiologist						FAX: (405) 271-3117 
VA Medical Center						darrin-akins at ouhsc.edu