School of Computer Science

Ph.D. Students

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The School of Computer Science maintains a list of project adverts proposed by members of staff. One proposed by Robert Stevens is:

Azlinayati Manaf has started looking at the relationship between the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
Mikel Egaña Aranguren is looking at the use of design patterns as a way of enriching ontologies in OWL and improving their engineering. His work is the latest manifestation of the GONG project.
James Eales has been doing some work on the application of text mining to automatic extraction of experimental methods from the phylogenetic literature.
Paul Fisher is developing methodologies for analysing gene expression data in a systematic and unbiased manner. these are implemented by using Taverna workflows from the myGrid project.
Rachel BrenchleyIs using ontological classification of proteins described by their sequence features to understand the profile of protein phosphatases in a series of parasites.

Andy Brown is doing research into how annotations of representations of graph based diagrams can aid reading and understanding by bisually disabled people.
Karim Nassarhas been investigating methods of knowledge ellicitation in the development of bio-ontologies, especially the use of Concept Maps as a tecnique for the immediate capture of biologists view of the biological world
Duncan Hull is exploring ways of managing the problem of matching bioinformatics Web services in the construction of myGrid taverna workflows and overcoming the shim problem.
Jun Zhao researched and developed models of provenance for e-Science experiments as a part of the mygrid project
Yeliz Yesilada did research on the use of a travel metaphor in the exploration of Web pages by visually disabled people.
Katy Wolstencroft used ontologies of protein phosphatases to manage a protein phosphatase database (Phosphabase) and to classify the members of that protein family.