SWAN Project

Semantic Web Applications
in Neuromedicine!

SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) is a project to develop knowledge bases for the neurodegenerative disease research communities, using the energy and self-organization of that community enabled by Semantic Web technology. Created in collaboration with the Alzforum and other partners. Read more about the SWAN project here.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association and an anonymous foundation for their generous support of the SWAN project. Many thanks as well to Steve Cayzer and Andy Seaborne (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) and Sean Martin (Cambridge Semantics) for many valuable technical discussions.

Lastly, we wish to thank Bradley Hyman (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology) and Carole Goble (University of Manchester Computer Science Department) for their continuing moral support and helpful advice.

Free and Open Source Software

» The Apache Software Foundation for many of the open source java tools that we build upon.
» The Simile Project for the Exhibit and Timeline applications.
» The Open Anzo project for the RDF store and for Jastor.