INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 DRTC Seminar – 3 (2014) Bio-ontologies: A case study ABSTRACT The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of biological data in diverse database formats governed by heterogeneous infrastructures. The semantics (attribute terms) and the organizations vary across the databases. Bio-ontologies are used to describe different conceptual frameworks that guide the collection, organization and publication of biological data. The bio-ontologies are a means of communicating and resolving semantic and organizational differences between biological databases in order to enhance their integration and allow interoperability. This seminar includes a short introduction on ontology and its applications followed by short descriptions on bioinformatics, its taxonomy and applications, need for bio-ontologies, ontology library and a case study on cancer ontologies with special reference to the relations. Speaker: Anwesha Bhattacharya MSLIS, II-year Date: 18.09.2014. Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC, ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.