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Dear all I am pleased to announce the new Semantic Discovery System (SDS) with options for Academic (free) and Commercial licensing. This is also an invite to visit our Early Access Product Forums, and if you wish, to also download the Early Access Release Software - please see below signature: At the SDS EAP forum In the interests of brevity I am saying the barest minimum here - and if the following seems interesting there's some more detail below - and much more at the In Silico Discovery Forums and Web Site, again as referenced below. The Semantic Discovery System (SDS) has developed out of many years of formal collaborations with GlaxoSmithKline, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Manchester, producing an original R&D information discovery 'semantic web' technology that supersedes the well known TAMBIS system - and we are just now making an Early Access Release of SDS available at a privately hosted collaborative forum to which we are inviting your participation and any colleagues you may wish to invite too (see details below: - At the SDS EAP Forum). We are keen to get your feedback, and to invite your participation to the degree possible for you, in reviewing, using, recommending, and even participating in the specification, design & development of new features and functions for everyone's benefit. And please feel free to forward this to anyone else you think might be interested. Regards, Ian Ian Goldsmid UK: +44 (208) 816 8379 US West Coast: +1 (415) 691 6097 US East Coast: +1 (617) 997 0920 Skype ID: igoldsmid <blocked::mailto:igoldsmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> igoldsmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <blocked::http://www.insilicodiscovery.com> http://www.insilicodiscovery.com SDS From an end-user's perspective The important productivity point our collaborators feel is that researchers are now empowered to ask questions 'in their own terms' (for example "find me all compounds with molecular weight < 500, logP <= 5 and number of hydrogen bond donors <= 5'...") and SDS will retrieve the results from disparate databases, files, external web services and the like. The Collaborators believe an important business point is that because the low level code to answer these questions is automatically generated, there is a great acceleration available in turnaround time - and researchers can now be increasingly in charge of their own In Silico discovery. SDS From a semantic web technologist's perspective SDS enables "OWL all the way down" so to speak. Meaning: first, there is a layer of SPARQL query processing 'under' the OWL GUI. This layer communicates 'all the way down' to the substrate distributed data sources so full-on federated queries using SPARQL are achieved. In order to 'work' SDS has implemented a layer of object relational mapping (called K3MDL) that sits on top of the data dictionary which describes the low level physical data sources connected to (RDBMS, Flat Files, Algorithms, Web Sites/Services). These low level K3SQL addressable syntactic data structures then become abstracted into higher level semantic 'concepts' that can also be queried by K3SQL or indirectly by SPARQL. These concepts can have arbitrary relationships defined between them (which obviously underpin the whole Ontology query system) so the whole infrastructure is identical in function to a virtual RDF triple store. At the SDS EAP Forum The Forum is already set up with a read/view only login for you (the Forums will become visible after you have logged in) or any of your colleagues at http://insilicodiscovery.com/phpbb/ - please use "guest" for the User Name and "guest" for the Password too. This grants you access to view and read all the forums but not reply to, or create new posts, and you can also download the Early Access Release of SDS, and accompanying documentation too. We hope you wish to participate more fully (posting/responding etc), and if you do please reply to this email (as opposed to registering at the forum), or you can respond with a separate email to me at igoldsmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and please indicate which organization you are affiliated with (if it's not obvious from the email domain), and I will create a forum registration for you with post and reply permissions - (this precaution is because at this point the EAP Forums are private/hidden unless registered, are restricted to invitees, and we also wish to prevent junk mailers entering the forums so we currently delete all web initiated registrations that have an unknown email domain). We would be delighted if you would choose to participate more fully. The SDS web site www.insilicodiscovery.com is in transition from a very basic 'design' to a much better one (complete in about two weeks from now) - though it contains plenty of information including numerous Powerpoint presentations and product documentation - so if looks don't bother you too much.....! <<attachment: winmail.dat>> _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Subscribe/Config: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (01) |