The Clinical Knowledge Research Consortium is well qualified to address these information challenges of the World Wide Web with complimentary research skills.

Ontology Works has extensive experience in addressing the issues of data analytics, deductive data analysis, ontology-based deductive database and knowledge systems, and the natural language aspects linked to ontologies. Lindsey Spratt leads the study into innovative methods and structures to support Medical Knowledge Discovery based on extensive experience in ontology-based knowledge systems and biomedical knowledge applications. The Web site qualification research creates innovative methods to define sources of medical information web pages and rank and qualify medical information web sites. The NLP Tools research will define the Natural Language aspects linked to Open Biomedical Ontologies using existing research and work done on Natural Language Processing such as that of Mayo Clinic Lexical Grid initiative and the University at Buffalo.

Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine has a multi-disciplinary team headed by Warren Kibbe, Director Bioinformatics, addressing a broad range of clinical and biomedical informatics projects and is a Google academic partner addressing the application of Google technology to biomedical computing. The Web Access research is to define and create a Medical Knowledge Discovery Research Platform that access and exploits the complexity and magnitude of information on the World Wide Web.

Science Commons focus is on the structuring and use of clinical knowledge to answer questions and computationally interpret knowledge information and data. The Medical Portal research, lead by Alan Ruttenberg, defines innovative methods to create interactive disease and medication web queries that can be adapted per disease class. Jonathan Rees heads the Clinical Applications study based on ongoing research in knowledge representation and reasoning technologies.

The University of Maryland interest is research into gene-centric and disease-focused applications and bioinformatics tools. The Clinical Question research by Lynn Schriml is to define innovative structures and methodologies that allow clinicians to gain insight into patient care and clinical research.

Contact:
Steve Roessingh
Senior Research Partner
Medical Knowledge Discovery Research Project
steve.roessingh@gmail.com