Carole Goble
Encyclopedia
Carole Anne Goble, FREng
, FBCS
, CITP
is a Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Manchester
in the UK. She is Principal Investigator (PI)
of the myGrid
, BioCatalogue
and myExperiment
projects.
Her academic career has been spent at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She gained her Bachelor of Science
degree in computing
and information systems
from 1979 to 1982, joined the academic staff in 1985, and became a professor in 2000.
Her current research interests include Grid computing
, the Semantic Grid
, the Semantic Web
, Ontologies, e-Science
, medical informatics and Bioinformatics
. She applies advances in knowledge technologies and workflow
systems to solve information management
problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines. She has successfully secured funding from the European Union
, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
in the US and most UK funding agencies including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
, Medical Research Council (UK)
, the Department of Health (United Kingdom)
, The OMII-UK and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Carole was recipient of the first Jim Gray e-Science
Award in December 2008. Tony Hey
, corporate vice president of Microsoft
External Research who sponsored the award, said Goble was chosen for the award because of her work to help scientists do data-intensive science through the Taverna workbench
.
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Royal Academy of Engineering
-Overview: is the UK’s national academy of engineering. The Academy brings together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering....
, FBCS
FBCS
FBCS is an abbreviation for Fellow of the British Computer Society . This is the most senior professional grade in the BCS. It is available to applicants with a minimum of five years of Information Technology experience in a senior IT position or who have an established eminent or authoritative...
, CITP
Chartered IT professional
Chartered IT Professional denoted by CITP is a professional certification awarded under Royal Charter to IT professionals who satisfy strict criteria set by the British Computer Society , which is the professional body for IT in the United Kingdom...
is a Professor of Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
in the UK. She is Principal Investigator (PI)
Principal investigator
A principal investigator is the lead scientist or engineer for a particular well-defined science project, such as a laboratory study or clinical trial....
of the myGrid
MyGrid
The myGrid consortium is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary internationally leading research group focussing on the challenges of eScience...
, BioCatalogue
BioCatalogue
The BioCatalogue is a curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services. The BioCatalogue was launched in June 2009 at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference....
and myExperiment
MyExperiment
myExperiment is a social web site for researchers sharing Research Objects such as Scientific Workflows. The Website was launched in November 2007 and contains a significant collection of scientific workflows for a variety of workflow systems, most notably Taverna, but also other tools such as...
projects.
Her academic career has been spent at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She gained her Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
degree in computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
and information systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
from 1979 to 1982, joined the academic staff in 1985, and became a professor in 2000.
Her current research interests include Grid computing
Grid computing
Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
, the Semantic Grid
Semantic Grid
The Semantic Grid refers to an approach to Grid computing in which information, computing resources and services are described using the semantic data model. In this model the data and metadata are expressed through facts . Therefore it becomes directly understandable for humans...
, the Semantic Web
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
, Ontologies, e-Science
E-Science
E-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
, medical informatics and Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
. She applies advances in knowledge technologies and workflow
Workflow
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...
systems to solve information management
Information management
Information management is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in, or a right to that information...
problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines. She has successfully secured funding from the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military...
in the US and most UK funding agencies including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences , mainly to universities in the United Kingdom...
, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is a UK Research Council and NDPB and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience...
, Medical Research Council (UK)
Medical Research Council (UK)
The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
, the Department of Health (United Kingdom)
Department of Health (United Kingdom)
The Department of Health is a department of the United Kingdom government with responsibility for government policy for health and social care matters and for the National Health Service in England along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish,...
, The OMII-UK and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Carole was recipient of the first Jim Gray e-Science
E-Science
E-Science is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid...
Award in December 2008. Tony Hey
Tony Hey
Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS is a researcher and educator across a range of science and engineering fields....
, corporate vice president of Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
External Research who sponsored the award, said Goble was chosen for the award because of her work to help scientists do data-intensive science through the Taverna workbench
Taverna workbench
Taverna Workbench is an open source software tool for designing and executing workflows, created by the myGrid project and funded through the OMII-UK...
.
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- Peer reviewed publications by Carole Goble in Computer Science from DBLPDBLPDBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles on computer science in January 2010...
- Peer reviewed publications by Carole Goble in Biomedicine from PubMedPubMedPubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
- Carole Goble speaker information from World Wide Web ConferenceWorld Wide Web ConferenceThe International World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web...
- Carole Goble introduction on public-semweb-lifesci mailing list at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)World Wide Web ConsortiumThe World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
- Carole Goble at the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI)Web scienceThe Web Science Trust is a joint effort originally started between MIT and University of Southampton to bridge and formalize the social and technical aspects of the World Wide Web...
- Carole Goble on semanticweb.org
- Carole Goble profile on BiomedExpertsBiomedExpertsBiomedExperts is a publication-based scientific social network that allows researchers to collaborate virtually, in order to increase biomedical research. It involves more than 3,500 institutions in more than 190 countries.-External links:*...
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Bioinformatics talk by Carole Goble at BOSC/ISMB 2007