Cyberinfrastructure for Biology
Alan Ruttenberg

My interest lies in structuring and using biological and clinical knowledge to answer questions and computationally interpret experimental data. I’m currently involved in a number of open biomedical ontology efforts, including: The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), and the Basic Formal Ontology(BFO) that will form the upper level ontology for the OBO Foundry. These interests and efforts come together in my project at Science Commons - the NeuroCommons, a large scale Semantic Web knowledge base of biological information aimed at supporting, initially, the neurosciences.

I’m an active participant in W3C Semantic Web activities. I’m a chair of the OWL Working Group specifying OWL 2, and a coordinating editor of the OBO Foundry. For more information about what I’m up to, google me, or drop me a note.

See also, my home page.