PhD Position Available
I have a new PhD position available; I am looking to extend some work that I was involved with a while ago now, but into a new area of biology. The idea is that we build an ontological model of the mitochondria, and the knowledge that exists about it. We should be able to build a light-weight model that covers many areas of the biology as an entire system. This will be useful both as an integration point (a traditional use for ontologies), but also so that we can make predictions and search for inconsistencies in the model. In other words, the ontology should be an integral part of the scientific process; we represent a hypothesis ontological and then let the reasoner search for the data for contradictions.