Established in 2006 by Dr Gully APC Burns, the Biomedical Knowledge Engineering group at ISI seeks to provide a framework for computer scientists at ISI to be able to apply their knowledge and expertise to challenging problems in biomedicine. We are currently working in close collaboration with the Natural Language Group (headed by Eduard Hovy) to build automated text-mining methods that assist the population of biomedical databases.

Our objective is to act as 'glue', that enable biological or medical researchers to express their biggest challenges in a form that permits computer scientists to apply modern information technology to solve their problems. We therefore develop core infrastructure that be widely applied across biomedical domains and then solicit specific collaborations with biologists that leverage our infrastructure. We acknowledge the generous initial funding provided by the Information Sciences Institute for allowing us to set up this initial effort.

Gully A.P.C. Burns (PI).

Eduard Hovy (co-PI, CS advisor).

Tommy Ingulfsen (Programmer).

Donghui Feng (Graduate Student).