Seminar room change: Srivastava talk in GWC 487@10:30 instead of 308

["Subbarao Kambhampati" <rao@asu.edu>]

There is a room change for today's talk by Biplav Srivastava
It will be in GWC 487 at 10:30  (instead of GWC 308).

Title: Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics: An Inter-disciplinary
'Killer-App' for CS Research 



Speaker: Biplav Srivastava, Ph.D.
         IBM India Research Laboratory
         sbiplav@in.ibm.com

Time/Room: 10:30 GWC 487

Abstract:


There is good research and there is successful research. What makes
good individual research projects successful is not just their
technical depth but also how they are put together for solving a
pressing need. The vision to put a man on moon and bring him
successfully back, was one such need, which collectively drove many
research projects and technologies across a variety of disciplines to
success in the 60s.


What is such a pressing need today ? In this talk, we introduce
knowledge management in bioinformatics as one 'killer-app' that can
drive much of CS research in this decade. A number of exciting
developments ranging from near completion of the Human Genome project,
microarrays that can measure the expression levels of thousands of
genes simultaneously, easy access to all kinds of biological data,
well-structured collection of domain ontologies, and IT requirements
more challenging than Moore's law, provide the context in which a
hapless biologist must make sense of biological phenomena and pursue
goals like drug discovery or personalized medicine. The aim is to
technologically empower the biologist in a manner that relegates IT/
CS details to behind the scene.


The talk will present the general problem and identify entailed issues
for CS research in systems (databases, networking, security), AI
(planning, ontologies/KR, NLP, self-management), multi-media and data
mining. We will specifically focus on infrastructure where the IBM
vision of a Life Sciences Framework will be presented followed by
details of a first-step prototype that facilitates KM with gene
expression, literature, protein and pathways data.







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Subbarao Kambhampati 
Professor, Dept. of Comp Sci. and Engg. Arizona State University, 
Tempe, AZ 85287-5406  rao@asu.edu (email)
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