Learning Modules

Introduction
Dr. Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick Saint John

Use Cases - Deployments of SADI for Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics

Module 1: Semantic Web
Instructor: Natalia Villanueva Rosales and Dr. Alexandre Riazanov

• Current Web vs. Semantic Web
• Linked Data: Publish Data, Merge Data, add Knowledge
• RDF: Syntax, Reasoning and Query Composition
• Description Logic as a Basis for Axiomatic Knowledge Representation: TBox and ABox, Class and Property Hierarchies, Complex Class Descriptions, Relations Between Classes and Properties
• Description Logic Reasoning Basics: Consistency, Subsumption, Classification
• Practical Reasoning with OWL
• OWL Practical Tools
• Ontology Design Principles, Good Practices and Design Patterns
• Ontologies in Use

Module 2: Motivation for SADI Web Services
Instructor: Dr. Alexandre Riazanov and Luke McCarthy

• Introduction to Web Services: SOAP/WSDL
• Bioinformatics Web Services
• SADI Semantic Web Services

Module 4: SADI Semantic Web Services
Instructor: Luke McCarthy (supported by Dr. Alexandre Riazanov and Natalia Villanueva Rosales )

• Recap SADI Services
• SADI Registry
• SADI Service Ontologies
• SADI Toolkit:
  • Service Generator
    - Exercise: Build a SADI Service
  • Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL)
  • Java Libraries
  • SHARE Query Client
    
• SADI and Taverna