*NBIC PhD Course on Managing and Integrating Life Science Information (3rd edition) *Course coordinators: Marco Roos, Katy Wolstencroft _Date:_ 17-21 June 2013 _Location:_ Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands _Website: _http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/nbic-phd-school-course-portfoli... _Registration:_ http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ _Contact info: _Celia van Gelder (education@nbic.nl <mailto:education@nbic.nl>) _ 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 get the most credit and make it available and reusable for the rest of the community. _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. 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: 1.how the 'Linked Data' principle works and how it can be applied for 'meaningful' data integration. 2.how to expose your local data with rich metadata for use in other systems. 3.how Web Services and workflows can be used to analyse distributed data. 4.how to make publishable artefacts from your data for which you can get scientific credit. _ Lecturers:_ Paul Groth (VU), Frank van Harmelen (VU), Marco Roos (LUMC), Egon Willighagen (UM), Katy Wolstencroft (VU, University of Manchester) ._ Programme_ Day 1: Introductions to Data integration ·An introduction to the latest techniques in data and knowledge management ·A semantic web primer ·Hands on: A practical introduction to the semantic web - RDF and querying RDF Day 2: Data to understandable data (generating and sharing data for reuse) ·An introduction to minimum information models, identifiers and data standards ·Hands on: A practical introduction data standards with RightField and Bioportal ·RDF and dataset guidelines Day 3: Data to understandable data, part 2 (publishing and sharing) ·An introduction to Nanopublications - a new way of publishing your data and results ·Hands On: Creating and using Nanopublications · Day 4: Integrating and using data (part 1) ·An introduction to workflows and distributed ·Hands on: A practical introduction to using the Taverna workbench ·An introduction to Research Objects - describing the how and why of your experiments Day 5: Integrating and using data (part 2) ·An Introduction to provenance - recording the how and why of your experiments ·The OpenPhacts project: using the Semantic Web for large-scale research projects ·Hands on: Exploring OpenPhacts data -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl <mailto:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl> websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl <http://www.cmbi.ru.nl>, www.nbic.nl <http://www.nbic.nl> Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl, www.nbic.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands