Biotech Industry or Towards the Semantic Web

Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview

Author: Bryan Bergeron

"The biotech industry is a complex, rapidly evolving, and critical industry. The industry holds great commercial and societal promise, but it is also filled with hype, confusion, and risks. Bergeron and Chan do a remarkable job of providing a sweeping insightful, and probing assessment of the current state and likely evolution of this global industry. This book is essential reading for the executive who desires a thorough understanding of this business and its potential."--John P. Glasser, Vice President and Chief Information Offers, Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
"Bergeron and Chan have done a marvelous job integrating many different perspectives to give the reader a coherent road map of the biotech industry for the next decade. This powerful book is anchored by numerous relevant examples that create a framework which any life sciences professional needs to understand. Of particular note is the compelling assessment of the IT industry and its impact on the life sciences as these industries converge."--Michael A. Greeley, Managing General Partner, IDG Ventures.
An in-depth examination of the growth and financing of the biotechnology industry worldwide Biotech Industry: A Global, Economic, and Financing Overview provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it's being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing.
Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech area, this unique book gives Eos and other senior-level managers an understanding of Asia's pivotal role in the worldwide success of biotechnology commercialization,as well as insight into the biotech market over the next decade.

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Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

Author: Dieter Fensel

With the current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, this book uses a different approach from other books on the market: it applies ontologies to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal theories supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to explicitly represent semantics of semi-structured information. These enable sophisticated automatic support for acquiring, maintaining and accessing information. Methodology and tools are developed for intelligent access to large volumes of semi-structured and textual information sources in intra- and extra-, and internet-based environments to employ the full power of ontologies in supporting knowledge management from the information client perspective and the information provider.
The aim of the book is to support efficient and effective knowledge management and focuses on weakly-structured online information sources. It is aimed primarily at researchers in the area of knowledge management and information retrieval and will also be a useful reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level and for business managers who are aiming to increase the corporations' information infrastructure.

The Semantic Web is a very important initiative affecting the future of the WWW that is currently generating huge interest. The book covers several highly significant contributions to the semantic web research effort, including a new language for defining ontologies, several novel software tools and a coherent methodology for the application of the tools for business advantage. It alsoprovides 3 case studies which give examples of the real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic-web based ontologies in "real world" situations. As such, the book is an excellent mixture of theory, tools and applications in an important area of WWW research.
* Provides guidelines for introducing knowledge management concepts and tools into enterprises, to help knowledge providers present their knowledge efficiently and effectively.
* Introduces an intelligent search tool that supports users in accessing information and a tool environment for maintenance, conversion and acquisition of information sources.
* Discusses three large case studies which will help to develop the technology according to the actual needs of large and or virtual organisations and will provide a testbed for evaluating tools and methods.
The book is aimed at people with at least a good understanding of existing WWW technology and some level of technical understanding of the underpinning technologies (XML/RDF). It will be of interest to graduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field, and the many industrial personnel who are tracking WWW technology developments in order to understand the business implications. It could also be used to support undergraduate courses in the area but is not itself an introductory text.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Biographies
	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	OIL and DAML+OIL: Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web	11
3	A Methodology for Ontology-based Knowledge Management	33
4	Ontology Management: Storing, Aligning and Maintaining Ontologies	47
5	Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema	71
6	Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web: OntoBuilder	91
7	OntoEdit: Collaborative Engineering of Ontologies	117
8	QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web	133
9	Spectacle	145
10	OntoShare: Evolving Ontologies in a Knowledge Sharing System	161
11	Ontology Middleware and Reasoning	179
12	Ontology-based Knowledge Management at Work: The Swiss Life Case Studies	197
13	Field Experimenting with Semantic Web Tools in a Virtual Organization	219
14	A Future Perspective: Exploiting Peer-to-Peer and the Semantic Web for Knowledge Management	245
15	Conclusions: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management - Towards the Semantic Web?	265
	References	267
	Index	281