4th Oracle Life 
                    Sciences Users Group Meeting - Presentations

                    23rd and 24th June 2004, Reston, Virginia

                   
                
Here are the presentations of the 4th OLSUG Meeting, held 
  June 23 and 24, 2004, in Reston, Virginia, US. The presentations are in PDF 
  format. 
                  
                
Day 1

                 
				 Oracle 10g Life Sciences Platform

                  C. Berger, Oracle
                
 Oracle Data Cartridge Technology to Deliver a Scalable and 
                  Robust Relational Virtual Screening Structural Database 

                  B. Ling, Tularik
                

				Designing, Building and Living with Massive Databases

                  M. Widlake, Wellcome Trust Sanger Center
                
ISV Lightening Round

                  
				  InforSense Ltd., 
				  
				  InnaPhase, 
				  
				  Waters Corp, 
				  
				  MDL, 
				  
				  Applied Biosystems, 
                  
				  Accelrys
                

				Developing an Enterprise Biotechnology Data System

                  M. Forster, Syngenta
                

				Having a BLAST in Oracle 10g—Building a Bioinformatics 
                  Target Database

                  J. Burke, UCB Pharma
                

				Information Architecture to Support Decision Making Throughout 
                  the Drug Discovery Cycle 

                  D. Nick, Infinity Pharmaceuticals
                

				Data Mining Techniques for Evaluating Clinical Practice Guideline 
                  Adherence in Chronic Disease Patients

                  C. Hamm, Walter Reed Medical Center
                

				

			
The Genomics Unified Schema (GUS) and Application Framework

                  M. Saffitz, Computational Biology & Informatics Laboratory 
                  (CBIL) University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioinformatics
                

				Workshop: Using Table Functions

                  S. Thomas, Oracle
                

  Workshop: Network Data Model

   
  Network Data Model and Analysis, J. Wang, Oracle

   
  Network Data Model Case Studies, S. Stephens, Oracle 

   
  Network Data Model Tom Sawyer Software, B. Madden, Tom Sawyer Software

   
  Network Data Model RDF for Life Sciences, J. Wilbanks, I3C
  


        Workshop: Oracle Warehouse Builder for Life Sciences

                  P, Narth , A. El Kortobi, Oracle
                

				
				Using Oracle Extensible Indexing Framework 

                  G. Lee, Oracle 
                

				
				Workshop: Using ODM BLAST

                  S. Thomas, Oracle

                




                  Day 2

                  
				  OLSUG Planning and Steering Committee

                  OLSUG Steering Committee
                

				Using Oracle for Loading, Extracting, and Sharing Data

                  J. Lim, Bristol-Myers Squibb
                

                  
				  Bioinformatic Pipelines: a 10gPerspective

                  M. Collins, Celera Genomics (AppleraCorp)
                

             
					Simple Steps to Implement RMAN Recovery Manager

                  ZLB Behring, J. Crew & N. Sawlani
                
ISV Lightening Round

                  
				  Tom Sawyer Software, Inc., 
				  
				  World Fusion Corp, 
				  
				  Spotfire, 
				  
				  LION bioscience, Inc., 
				  
				  Tripos
                

				Upgrading Oracle in a LIMS Environment 

                  J. Crew & N. Sawlani, ZLB Behring
                

				Partition Table – A Practical Guide to Store DNA Sequencing 
                  Data

                  X. Guan, NIH
                
The Use of Oracle in Discovery of Distant Protein Sequence 
                  Similarities 

                  G. Babnigg, Argonne Labs
                

				Managing and working with Images

                  M. Widlake, T. Webb, Wellcome Sanger Trust Centre & Oracle 
                  InterMedia team
                

				Oracle Global Customer Program

                  S. Anand, Oracle
                

	     
					Workshop: Text Mining Medline: A Simple Application to Mine 
                  Medline

                  R. Podowski, Oracle
                

				Workshop: Developing Applications using Jdeveloper 10g

                  M. Navarange, Imperial College
                


				Workshop: Using Oracle Warehouse Builder for Life 
                  Sciences

                  P, Narth , A. El Kortobi, Oracle
                

				Workshop: Using Intermedia for Images

                  M. Annamalai, W. Beauregard, Oracle
                

				Workshop: Mining Life Science Data using Oracle Data 
                  Mining

                  B. Haberstroh, Oracle