BioSB Course on Managing and Integrating Life Science Information: Approaches using Linked Data and Semantics (4th edition) Course coordinators: Marco Roos, Katy Wolstencroft Date: 30 November - 4 December 2015 Location: SURF, Utrecht, the Netherlands Website: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-managing-and-integrating-i.... Registration: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-managing-and-integrating-i... .Please not that this course is free of charge for PhDs who are or will become a member of the BioSB research school, and with a reduced fee for other researchers who are or will become a member of BioSB. More information about the BioSB membership can be found here: http://biosb.nl/about/members/biosb-membership-information/ . Course flyer: http://biosb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wolstencroft_Roos_Course_2015_Jun... Target audience This course is for bioinformaticians who would like to learn about leading-edge data and knowledge integration solutions. You will learn (1) powerful and flexible approaches to data and information management for your bioinformatics application (Semantic Web and Linked Data), (2) how to work with data across remote locations, for instance by applying Web Services and workflows, (3) how to publish your own data to make it available and reusable for the rest of the community. We assume a basic understanding of bioinformatics programming for the hands on sessions. It would suit previous user participants of BYOD<http://www.dtls.nl/fair-data/byod/> meetings who would like more hands-on experience of data integration. It would also suit data providers who would like to explore new ways of serving their data or integrating it with other resources Description The amount of Life Science data available in the public domain is a vast and growing resource for bioinformatics research. There are over 20 million papers in PubMed and over 1600 biological databases. In many cases finding and applying the information from these resources is far from trivial. Following this course will show you techniques for working with these distributed resources, which includes using the web of Linked data and scientific workflows. It will also focus on methods for using or linking your own data into this large distributed Semantic Web of resources, in order to ensure that your data is FAIR<http://www.dtls.nl/fair-data/byod/> (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This course introduces modern techniques for the management of life science data and knowledge for bioinformatics applications. After following this course students should be able to start creating their first applications based on these technologies or make more informed design decisions for their current application. In this course you will learn about: 1. Linked Data and the Semantic Web technologies that underpin it 2. How you can use Linked Data for data and knowledge integration in the Life Sciences 3. Available Linked Data resources in the public domain and large-scale projects that use these resources 4. How you can integrate your own data with Linked Data resources 5. How you can combine data integration and analysis over distributed resources, using Web Services and workflows Lecturers: Marco Roos, Katy Wolstencroft, Frank van Harmelen, Paul Groth, Simon Jupp, Jesse van Dam, and others TBC . Programme Monday 30/11 - Introduction to Semantic Interoperability and the Semantic Web 09:00-09:30 Coffee/Tea 09:30-09:45 Introduction and workshop goals 09:45-11:00 Semantic Web Primer 11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea 11:15-12:30 An introduction to Linked Data 12:30-13:00 Lunch 13:00-15:00 Introduction to creating RDF and using a triple store (hands on session) 15:00-15:30 Surf Sara services for researchers 15:30-........ Welcome drinks Tuesday 01/12 - The Semantic Web in Use 09:30-10:00 Define course projects/interests (BYOD) 10:00-10:45 An Introduction to Constructing SPARQL Queries 10:45-11:00 Coffee/Tea 11:00-12:30 SPARQL hands-on session 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 An Introduction the the EBI RDF platform and Ontologies 14:30-16:30 Querying the EBI RDF platform, hands-on Wednesday 02/12 - The Semantic web in use - systems and guidelines 09:30-10:30 The OpenPHACTS project 10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea 10:45-12:30 Openphacts hands on session 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 Guidelines and best practices for Linked Data 14:30-16:30 Hands on session 16:30-17:00 Wrap-up Thursday 03/12 - Making Data Understandable and Searchable 09:30-10:30 An Introduction to Describing and Annotating Data: Case Study in systems Biology 10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea 10:40-12:30 Using tools for annotating and describing data - hands on session 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 Ontologies in depth 14:30-16:30 Ontology hands-on 16:30-17:00 Wrap-up Friday 04/12 - Using, Integrating and Analysing Data 09:30-10:30 An introduction to scientific workflows and distributed analyses 11:00-12:30 Designing and executing Taverna Workflows, hands-on 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Hands-on: Data integration with linked data (BYOD wrap up) 15:00-15:30 BYOD reports 15:30-16:15 The added value of FAIR data - Closing keynote 16:15-16:45 Wrap-up Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Education Manager BioSB Coordinator Education CMBI Programme Manager Learning DTL/ELIXIR-NL tel. +31613375327 e-mail: Celia.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl<mailto:Celia.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl> websites: www.nbic.nl<http://www.nbic.nl/>, www.biosb.nl, www.cmbi.ru.nl<http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/>, www.dtls.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre PO Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Het Radboudumc staat geregistreerd bij de Kamer van Koophandel in het handelsregister onder nummer 41055629. 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