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SUMMARY:Reasonable names and reasonable terms for Bacteria and Archaea - G
 arrity\, GM (Michigan State University and NamesforLife\, LLC)
DTSTART:20140324T134500Z
DTEND:20140324T144500Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Co-authors: Charles T. Parker (NamesforLife\, LLC)\, Nenad B. 
 Krdzavac (Michigan State University)\, Kevin Petersen (Michgan State Unive
 rsity)\, Grace Rodriguez (NamesforLife\, LLC) \n\nOne of the principle goa
 ls of metagenomics studies is to better understand the complex relationshi
 ps that exist between microbial communities and the environments in which 
 they are found. A complicating factor is that each exerts an influence on 
 the other in significant but poorly understood ways that are often in a st
 ate of flux. To gain useful information from such studies\, one must under
 stand not only the community composition\, but also the metabolic capabili
 ties of the community members under the observed conditions. High throughp
 ut sequencing\, coupled with various ordination and phylogenetic methods p
 rovides a way of uncovering interesting patterns in the data\, but extract
 ion of knowledge from the data requires integration with other databases a
 nd the literature\, both of which are typically accessed based on inferred
  identity of community members. For such inference to be meaningful\, one 
 must have a fundamental understanding of both the nomenclature and the ter
 minologi es that are used to describe unambiguously the species of interes
 t\, preferably in a manner that is amenable to automation. This presentati
 on will focus on the development of a generalized semantic model that has 
 been developed to disambiguate biological nomenclature and to provide both
  humans and machines with direct access to the correct information about a
 ll of the validly named prokaryotic taxa. Current research efforts on deve
 loping an ontology of microbial phenotypes\, which supports machine reason
 ing\, will also be discussed.\n\nRelated Links: \nhttps://www.researchgate
 .net/profile/George_Garrity/ - Speaker bio (academic) \n\nhttp://www.linke
 din.com/pub/george-garrity/5/7b2/a65/ - Speaker bio (general/industrial)\n
  \nhttp://services.namesforlife.com - company website\n\nhttp://standardsi
 ngenomics.org - Standards in Genomic Sciences (editor-in-chief) \n\nhttp:/
 /icsp.org - International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (chair) 
 \n\nhttp://ijs.sgmjournals.org - International Jorunal of Systematic and E
 volutionary Microbiology (list/nomenclature editor and reviewer)\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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