At TriCon 2016, the 23rd International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, Dr. Mark Musen will present "The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval: New Technology for Data Discovery and Integration".
Abstract: The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) is a new center of excellence founded under the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program. Workers at CEDAR are studying new technologies to develop and manage online templates for describing experimental metadata, and for piecing together those templates to create structures that investigators can use to produce standard metadata descriptions more efficiently and more precisely. CEDAR is working to make the authoring of comprehensive metadata a simple task so that online datasets can be more discoverable, more self-descriptive, and more analyzable by the biomedical community.
Mark A. Musen, Ph.D., M.D., is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Department, Stanford University School of Medicine.