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Title: From the iCAPTURer to McManusInformaticus


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From the iCAPTURer to McManus-Informaticus
  • Benjamin Good
  • Wilkinson Laboratory
  • iCAPTURE Centre, UBC

2
A Brief History of Ben
  • 1998 BS, UC San Diego,
  • Cognitive Science
  • 1999 Knowledge Engineer, SAIC
  • 2000 MSc Sussex Uni., UK,
  • Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
  • (clever computer programs)
  • 00-03 Bioinformatician, UCSD, CFAR
  • now - PhD student, Bioinformatics Training
    Programme

3
Knowledge Based Systems
  • Software systems that contain representations of
    human knowledge and can thus emulate human
    behaviour (to some extent).

4
Knowledge Based Systemsin practice
  • 1997 IBM computer program Deep Blue defeats world
    chess champion

5
BHAG
  • McManus-Informaticus
  • Deep Blue for Biomedical Research.
  • What are the Biomarkers of allograft rejection
    likely to be?
  • Hypothesis generation
  • Hypothesis validation

6
Knowledge Representation
Is hard and takes a lot of time
7
Neurosurgery?
8
The iCAPTURer
9
First Trial at YI Forum
  • 2 days to build the YI Ontology
  • 68 volunteers
  • 665 terms collected
  • 326 is a kind of relations collected
  • 340 same as relations collected
  • Quality assessment underway
  • Manuscript in preparation

10
Thanks to Dr. McManus
  • For hiring Dr. Mark Wilkinson
  • For suggesting I go to the YI Forum
  • For introducing me to the term BHAG
  • For posing in one of my most frequently used
    slides
  • And for sending me this in an email
  • thanks especially for pushing boundaries.
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