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Evaluation of research in biomedical ontologies

, cognitive science, linguistics and philosophy. Depending on the desired applications in which ontologies are being applied, the evaluation of research in biomedical ontologies must follow different strategies ... . - INTRODUCTION Biomedical ontology is an emerging discipline that applies theories and methods from diverse disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and formal logics to perform or improve

Exploring autonomy through computational biomodelling*

furnishing a proof of concept for conjectures in the philosophy of biology, and suggests the need for a process-based ontology of biological systems. ... resist easy prediction. Consequently computational biomodelling has a significant role to play in operationalising thoughtexperiments in philosophy of biology. In the next three sections we review

Bioinformatics education dissemination with an evolutionary problem solving perspective

bioinformatics education approaches. The BEDROCK initiative builds on the established pedagogical philosophy and academic community of the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium to assemble the diverse intellectual and ... share their own syllabi and resources. Consistent with BioQUEST 3 Ps philosophy (problem posing, problem solving and peer persuasion) [11], BEDROCK curricula are designed to give students the experience

A model for Bioinformatics training: the marine biological laboratory

informatics approaches to the many digital projects in the history and philosophy of science. Holly Miller is the project leader of the Science Informatics Group at the MBL. A biochemist and enzymologist by ... the EP be represented via RDF (http://www.w3.org/RDF/) and then shared across similar projects in the history and philosophy of science? And, could this be done programatically via the analysis of

The Role of Nurses’ Uncertainty in Decision-Making Process of Pain Management in People with Dementia

decision-making in priority-setting,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 13–22, 2015. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at ScopusC. Salzman, D. V. Jeste, R. E. Meyer et

The Role of Nurses’ Uncertainty in Decision-Making Process of Pain Management in People with Dementia

decision-making in priority-setting,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 13–22, 2015. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at ScopusC. Salzman, D. V. Jeste, R. E. Meyer et

The NGS WikiBook: a dynamic collaborative online training effort with long-term sustainability

]. As we are going to discuss, extensive sharing of experience is imperative for sustainable training, which is made possible by online collaborative efforts. PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE NGS WIKIBOOK Nine ... adequate information of data would be accessible by other researchers. The adoption of a community-accepted analysis strategy is essential towards analysis reproducibility. Built on the philosophy summarized

Investigating biocomplexity through the agent-based paradigm

ABM, definitions of the term agent, discussion on the agent-based philosophy and its ontological relevance to biological systems, a brief discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the two ... profoundly different nature, for example) [38] makes an ineluctable case in favour of the agent-based philosophy as the most suitable for dealing with organizational relationships appropriate for complex

Bioinformatics training: selecting an appropriate learning content management system—an example from the European Bioinformatics Institute

accord with EMBL-EBIs philosophy of supporting and contributing to open-source software projects, we are strongly in favour of using an open-source LCMS so long as it meets our requirements. Cohen and Nycz ... discern which platforms were worth investigating. This generated a list of 36 platforms (Table 6). Phase 2: In accordance with EMBL-EBIs philosophy of supporting open-source systems whenever possible, we

Conceptualizing and Treating Comorbid Chronic Pain and PTSD

, southeastern VA hospital that provides services to veterans suffering from both trauma and chronic pain. Underlying this approach is the philosophy that treating comorbid chronic pain and PTSD must begin with a ... that target coexisting disorders such as PTSD separately. The third tier encompasses interdisciplinary chronic pain programs that are comprehensive in their scope, philosophy, and approach to chronic

Conceptualizing and Treating Comorbid Chronic Pain and PTSD

, southeastern VA hospital that provides services to veterans suffering from both trauma and chronic pain. Underlying this approach is the philosophy that treating comorbid chronic pain and PTSD must begin with a ... that target coexisting disorders such as PTSD separately. The third tier encompasses interdisciplinary chronic pain programs that are comprehensive in their scope, philosophy, and approach to chronic

Conceptualizing and Treating Comorbid Chronic Pain and PTSD

, southeastern VA hospital that provides services to veterans suffering from both trauma and chronic pain. Underlying this approach is the philosophy that treating comorbid chronic pain and PTSD must begin with a ... that target coexisting disorders such as PTSD separately. The third tier encompasses interdisciplinary chronic pain programs that are comprehensive in their scope, philosophy, and approach to chronic

Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN): a community resource for bioinformatics trainers

their shoulders. If constructive collaborations can be built among the BTNs community, then projects may ultimately evolve whose whole is greater than the sum of their parts; this philosophy is the

Tools and collaborative environments for bioinformatics research

. Based on the so-called Web 2.0 philosophy, which predicates a direct and close interaction between the user and the network service, users may interact and collaborate with each other as content creators ... that often leads to increased knowledge, insight and creativity. This fits both the philosophy underpinning Moodles development and the way it is used to teach and learn. Its main goal is to create rich

DNA barcoding: a six-question tour to improve users' awareness about the method

barcoding sensu lato) [5256]. It should be clear to the users which kind of DNA barcoding philosophy they are going to use. QUESTION 2: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO IDENTIFY BY DNA BARCODING? THE MOLECULAR ENTITY ... even only one genera are not really in agreement with DNA barcoding philosophy, that is instead based on the possibility of amplifying, in a single PCR run and, hopefully, with the same primers, the same

A first course in computing with applications to biology

theme among these applications. The underlying philosophy of CS 1 is that while no single application will necessarily be exciting to every student, every student will hopefully find at least some of the

Crowdsourcing in biomedicine: challenges and opportunities

discovering its new role of problem solver as opposed to mere data provider [ 30 ], science is no longer confined to a closed community of scientists. Similar to the philosophy of designing with (and not just

MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences

software tools has experienced extensive growth over the last few years (see Figure 1 in [10]). In the following, we describe our biologistcentric philosophy behind the user-interface design, priorities for ... adopt an assist-not-reinvent philosophy for integrating biologists workflows. The advent of WebTop ( Web 2.0 associated technologies) offers fresh avenues for developing new and porting existing software

Alignment-free phylogenetics and population genetics

/ Shigella strains from their complete genomes [10]. For our seven example primates, dffp recovers the expected topology in 0.86 s (Figure 3C). A similar philosophy underlies the composition vector method [11

Biological knowledge management: the emerging role of the Semantic Web technologies

subsection Semantic Web technologies for KM). Ontologies and KR Ontologies constitute the very core of the computational KR. The term ontology was originally used in a branch of philosophy (metaphysics) in ... mainly follows from their distinctive goals: in philosophy, the ordering or categorization is valued the highest whereas computer scientists attach high importance to the exploitation of such a modelling