Dr. Harold "Skip" Garner Seminar
TITLE: Text similarity searching and data mining: Applications to reference finding, publication ethics, EMR analysis, and more. Dr. Garner is a physicist, and Life Scientist who has excelled in the Biotech Industry, research, and Bioinformatics. He is the current exectutive Director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and Professor at Virginia Tech. He will present two seminars: One on his research and another on text mining and its use in publishing ethics.
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Nov 17, 2011 from 04:00PM to 05:00PM |
| Where | Noble Research Center Room 348B |
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Applications to reference finding, publication ethics, EMR analysis, and more.
We have developed a series of text analytics codes based on text similarity searching and on implicit relationship finding. These have been the core of a number of computational applications we have created and made available to the public. For example, eTBlast (etblast.org) allows a user to input a paragraph (abstract for a paper in writing, reviewing, etc.) to find similar, relevant papers in a variety of databases (Medline, Arxiv, Wikipedia, etc.) without having to manipulate keywords. This technique has also been applied to the study of ethics, specifically publication ethics via finding duplicate and plagiarized papers. We also use these techniques in a number of other applications, including analysis of electronic health records, helping student select a major and tools to match professionals to literature and grant opportunities. All of these will be detailed in this presentation.
Areas of Emphasis in computational tools
eTBLAST, DejaVu, Eremorph, PCR Now , HomologeneP, ARGH , Nome della Proteina , SpinOut , SPOREbase
Please refer to the VBI Terms of Use as it covers all Garner Lab software and databases.
For Dr. Garner's research in genomics, please visit his website at:
