Bioinformatics Training Program at Jamia Milia Islamia

Title : Semantic Web & Ontologies in Bioinformatics

Date : From 9th to 11th January 2008

Registration Fee : Rs. 1000/- (For Teachers)
Rs. 500/- (For Students)

Level of Participants : Biology Teachers at College Level

Requirements : Basic Knowledge of Biology and Computers

Number of Participants : 30

Resource Persons : Prof. S.I.Ahson
Mr. S.K.Naqvi
Mr. K.Srinivas
Mr. S.Z.Husain
Dr. S.A.M. Rizvi


Course Contents :
Introduction to Ontologies : Traditional Structural Databases, Hierarchical
Organisation, Creating and updating XML, XML Schema, XML Data, XML
Topic Maps, XML in Bioinformatics, RDF (Resource Description Framework); Ontologies in

Bioinformatics : GO (Gene Ontology), Macromolecular sequence data bases,
Structural Databases, Species - specific databases, Specialized Protein
Databases, Pathways

Databases. ; Query Language : XML navigation Xpath, Querying XML
Using XQuery, Transforming XML to XML, XML Transformation Language (XSLT);

Building Bioinformatics Ontologies : Selecting Ontology Language,
Ontology Devolopment Tools, Acquiring Domain Knowledge, Designing the
Concept Hierarchy, Designing the Properties, Validating and Modify the Ontology;

Resoning with Uncertainly : Bayesian Network Formalism, Bayesian
Requirements, Building Bayesian Networks from Components, Ontologies as BNs, Interoperability.


Contact Address :
Prof. S.I. Ahson, Coordinator (BIF), Department of Computer Science
Dr. Rafat Parveen, Convener, Training Programmes
Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University)
New Delhi - 1110025
Phone : 011- 26980014, Fax : 26980014,
Mobile : 9810581072, 9810256519
E-mail : drsiahson@yahoo.com, rafatparveen@yahoo.co.in
website : www.jmi.nic.in