MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'freebase'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:41 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1446150&cid=t_127961_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F291423302%2F On net@nite I heard that Dipity, a great site for mashing up timelines uses Freebase as one of its information sources. An excellent example is this timeline for Marillion embedded below Earlier today, on Friendfeed, Alex Iskold described an “aha” moment for Powerset, which I have been quite underwhelmed by thus far (although it has a gorgeous UI). When I browsed over to the search link, it seemed to be that the reason the results appeared as they did were because they came from Freebase, whose structure made the query very powerful. Wonder if others think that’s the primary reason as well? The Wikipedia results for the query were not that impressive. So what do these results tell us? Well, perhaps there is value in taking data and adding structure the way Freebase and d... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1446150 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:23:19 +0100 1446150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1147425&cid=t_127961_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fquotes-from-neighbors-november-2007.html ==The value of feature extraction==I am a strong believer in the power of machine readable data, and the potential power it can provide. Whether it be a system like Freebase that allows you to add structure to data, or the kinds of entity extraction and data contexts that Jon Udell and Jeff Jonas talk about, making your data more “intelligent” is something that we should strive for, whether it be in the world of business, or the world of life science (or as Andrew Walkingshaw might point out, materials science). My old colleagues at Scitegic have a motto - “Ask more of your data”. That has always resonated with me. So lets take yet another look at how to make your data smarter, especially when the semantic web seems to be inching towards more mainstream acceptance.==Compiling the I... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1147425 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:07:00 +0100 1147425 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=794231&cid=t_127961_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F143370613%2F One of the sessions at Scifoo that left me a little confused was the demo by Danny Hillis and colleages on Freebase, something that I have discussed previous at bbgm. I love the concept of Freebase, the ability to create structures on top of data in a collaborative, somewhat ad hoc way. Something that I wasn’t aware of was that the folks at Metaweb are using Freebase (the website) as a test case, and expect that the primary use will be for developers to build applications using the Freebase API. The killer application that was mentioned was people search. I wonder how people search using Freebase would get significantly better traction that something like Spock, although it’s easy to see how a proper implementation could easily leap ahead of any people search engine (and someo... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=794231 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:03:59 +0100 794231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=742625&cid=t_127961_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F134948684%2F Curating annotations in for biological informatics is hard. There are companies that have many people searching through literature looking for protein-protein interactions and other similar relationships. A large part of what makes some databases more attractive is the level of curation, manual or otherwise. What if we could change the way that this goal is achieved, perhaps via some of the same resources that we are using the tech world? Many of us have talked about Freebase and its possibilities. Earlier today I was reading up a little on Phrasetrain, a local Seattle company that is using peer production to create a natural language technology. I am not quite sure how it works, although I have signed up for the beta. From their About page (emphasis mine) Phrasetrain is a small new techno... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=742625 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:30:03 +0100 742625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=700929&cid=t_127961_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F06%2F28%2Ffreebase_invitations I have a couple of Freebase invitations to give away. If you're interested, send an email to greg[dot]tyrelle[at]gmail[dot]com. For more information on Freebase see Pierre's posts. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=700929 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:06:03 +0100 700929