Play around with knowledge in a laboratory for e-science
Student training opportunities in the ‘adaptive information disclosure’ team.
If the idea of making knowledge computer readable and experimenting with such knowledge in the domain of biology or food science sounds appealing to you then a training project at AID may be something for you. You can gain experience on a number of technologies and their applications, and you will have the opportunity to be part of our international network. We welcome computer science students, bioinformatics students (or biology students with an interest in bioinformatics), and technical students (HBO) who want to work in a research setting. Please contact us if you are interested, and we can try to match your wishes and skills with specific projects at AID.
We regret that we cannot offer (or are not aware of) a special programme for foreign students, especially those from outside of Europe.
Technologies
- Information retrieval
- Information extraction by machine learning
- Metadata resource management
- Retrieval and management of resources (numerical data, documents, images, etcetera) through meaningful information associated with the resources. In the context of AID this information need not be machine readable directly.
- Semantic web, especially OWL and RDF formatted models
- Workflow
- In the context of AID applications, a workflow is a compilation of web services to perform a certain computational process (’computational experiment’) over a network. Workflow software aims to provide end users with an easier way to orchestrate or describe complex processing of data in a visual form, much like flow charts but without the need to understand computers or programming (adapted from wikipedia). We use Taverna and WS-VLAM.
- Web services
- Web2.0 web portals and user oriented ‘mashups’
- The middleware applications we make and use provide ways to interact with the underlying application from another (web) application. Building applications from (parts of) other applications if often referred to as ‘mashups’. myExperiment.org is one of the resources for mashups and gadgets. Click here for more information about mashups, Web2.0, and web portals.
Applications
- Biology/bioinformatics
- DNA structure/function relationships (chromatin, epigenetics, genomics)
- HIV gene-mutations/drugs combination
- Food informatics
Contact information
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to Scott Marshall, subject: training@AID, and include a bit of information about yourself, your education, and your motivation. If you are interested in biology applications in particular you can also contact Marco Roos.