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.

Publications

Journals

Ciccarese P, Wu E, Kinoshita J, Wong G, Ocana M, Ruttenberg A, Clark T. The SWAN Biomedical Discourse Ontology. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, in press. PMID: 18583197
Clark T and Kinoshita J (2007) Alzforum and SWAN: The Present and Future of Scientific Web Communities. Briefings in Bioinformatics 8(3):163-171; doi:10.1093/bib/bbm012. PMID: 17510163
Ruttenberg A, Clark T, Bug W, Samwald M, Bodenreider O, Chen H, Doherty D, Forsberg K, Gao Y, Kashyap V, Kinoshita J, Luciano J, Marshall MS, Ogbuji C, Rees J, Stephens S, Wong GT, Wu E, Zaccagnini D, Hongsermeier T, Neumann E, Herman I, Cheung KH (2007) Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web. BMC Bioinformatics 8 Suppl 3 S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S3-S2. PMID: 17493285.
Lam YK, Marenco L, Clark T, Gao Y, Kinoshita J, Shepherd G, Miller P, Wu E, Wong GT, Liu N, Crasto C, Morse T, Stephens S and Cheung KH AlzPharm: integration of neurodegeneration data using RDF.BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 3):S4 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S3-S4. PMID: 17493287.
Gao Y, Kinoshita J, Wu E, Miller E, Lee R, Seaborne A, Cayzer S, Clark T (2006) SWAN: A Distributed Knowledge Infrastructure for Alzheimer Disease Research. Journal of Web Semantics 4(3): 222-228. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2006.05.006

Conference proceedings and abstracts

Kinoshita J, Wong G, Wu E, Ocana M, Ciccarese P, Clark T (2007) SWAN, a shared knowledge base for Alzheimer Disease research. Neuroscience 2007, November 3-7, San Diego, California (accepted)
Ciccarese P, Wu E, Clark T (2007) An Overview of the SWAN 1.0 Ontology of Scientific Discourse. 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007). 2007. Banff, Canada. May 8-12, 2007.
Wong G, Gao Y, Wu E, Ciccarese P, Ocana M, Kinoshita J, Clark T (2006) Developing SWAN, a shared knowledge base for Alzheimer's disease research. Neuroscience 2006, Oct 14-18 2006, Atlanta, GA