November 2011

One Size Fits All Taxonomies

By |November 17th, 2011

A constant challenge for any content manager is the training to apply the right tags and metadata. We all know how important leaving these breadcrumbs can be to operating a comprehensive search. It is like filing something away in a blank folder with no idea of what it is and no way to find it. The DataFacet solution from WAND Inc provides sets of extensive taxonomies, and tools to automate the classification of documents and web content.

Semantic Search Technology Leader Adds V.P.s

By |November 17th, 2011

A leader in semantic search technology and innovation intelligence software has beefed up their management team. Invention Machine has appointed four senior executives to the company's management team as a strategic growth move.

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Spreadsheets Being Replaced by Taxonomies

By |November 16th, 2011

Taxonomy management tools have come a long way in tackling content organization challenges. However there seems to be no consistency in the tools and their approach. This is key as corporate requirements for search and content management have changed and grown for tools that help organizations create, administer, and publish semantic structures.

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The Need for a Taxonomy

By |November 16th, 2011

Many sophisticated semantic search tools build ontologies and taxonomies to organize the data. David Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Sophia Search, doesn’t think this is necessary and seeks freedom from taxonomies or ontologies.

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ICD-10 Creates Need for New Disease Taxonomy

By |November 15th, 2011

The National Research Council released a report earlier this month that highlights the need for new systems to incorporate the health and disease-related information that continues to amass at an amazing rate, into a single resource that can help improve health outcomes.

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Taxonomy and Its Many Uses

By |November 15th, 2011

Taxonomies are not limited to scientific or biomedical data. They may be used more often for that type of data, but online retailer Plumbworld, […]

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Semantic Search in Ontologies

By |November 15th, 2011

One of the important components of many bioinformatic algorithms are semantic similarity searches in ontologies. There are, unfortunately, no algorithms for computing the exact distribution of semantic similarity scores.

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Access Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method

By |November 14th, 2011

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced it has been awarded a U.S. Patent No. 8,046,212 for MAIChem™, a software-based method for searching chemical names in one or more text-containing documents that have been loaded into computer memory.

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ICD-10 Trumps the Y2K Anxiety

By |November 14th, 2011

We all know that behind the scenes in the health care industry many people are working towards one of the biggest changes to information systems in years. That is of course, the transition to the new ICD-10 medical coding classification system. For some, this is a business opportunity that could create growth and revenue.

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Semantic Technology Made Easier

By |November 14th, 2011

The challenges of managing in-house data, connecting it with public data and annotations, and then interpreting what it all means in the context of the biology research, is something everyone involved in bioinformatics research can attest to. Data interpretation slows down the process.

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