You'd have to download EXPO to see what it contains. My guess is that it's a continuation of the work that King has been doing for some time now. He works on robot experimental configurations for bio expts. and wants to represent a structured version of the output (or drivers?). He has a student, I think, who should be producing some papers on EXPO fairly soon. There may be some powerpoint floating around that tells more.
I'll write King and alert him to our discussion and ask him, point blank, where can we get an explanation of what EXPO is and what it does. (He's on my editorial board, for Biological Knowledge, so I'm in touch with him.) - Bob Futrelle On 6/9/06, William Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This was a new one on me too, Mark. It was posted to Slashdot the other day, and the Sorceforge site the article points to is essentially empty. http://sourceforge.net/projects/expo/ As you might gather, EXPO is not a very good term to search in all the usual suspect search engines - INSPEC, PubMed, IEEE XPlore, CiteSeer.IST, and Google/Google Scholar. Only a very few specific studies using EXPO in the title came up in: PubMed: CT-expo--a novel program for dose evaluation in CT Rofo. 2002 Dec;174(12):1570-6. INSPEC: The extended Poincare generating function type (EXPO) Extrasolar Planet Observatory (ExPO) EXPO is the integration of two programs, EXTRA and SIRPOW.92 and is a program for full powder decomposition and crystal structure solution. ACL Anthology of research papers in Comp. Linguistics A FORMAL GRAMMAR OF EXPRESSIVENESS FOR SACRED LEGENDS acl.ldc.upenn.edu/C/C80/C80-1023.pdf (an absolutely fascinating manuscript in no way related to this research project) There is certainly much interesting and relevant research going on in this center at the University of Aberystwyth (http://www.aber.ac.uk/ compsci/Research/bio/grants.shtml), but I wasn't able to find an specific reference to EXPO anywhere, though clearly it could be the result of research in any one of several of the projects listed. In the end, I just gave up. Cheers, Bill On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Mark Musen wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:09 PM, AJ Chen wrote: >> The first task is to develop an ontology for self-publishing of >> experiment. I have proposed a list of objects and properties >> related to self-publishing experiment. Please download the >> attached file under Task Status and review the proposal. Your >> feedback and comments will be greatly appreciated. You may also >> edit the file directly and email me the edited file. >> > > A colleague just pointed me to this (rather vacuous) article. Does > anyone know more about this work? > > http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9288-translator-lets- > computers-understand-experiments-.html > > Mark > Bill Bug Senior Analyst/Ontological Engineer Laboratory for Bioimaging & Anatomical Informatics www.neuroterrain.org Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy Drexel University College of Medicine 2900 Queen Lane Philadelphia, PA 19129 215 991 8430 (ph) 610 457 0443 (mobile) 215 843 9367 (fax) Please Note: I now have a new email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any accompany attachments are confidential. This information is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this email communication by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us immediately by returning this message to the sender and delete all copies. Thank you for your cooperation.
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