Chris Taylor

Standards and infrastructure for managing experimental metadata (2009)

Philippe Rocca-Serra, Marco Brandizi, Eamonn Maguire, Nataliya Sklyar, Chris Taylor, Manon Delahaye, ...

*See also the "related presentation":http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3145/version/1* We present an infrastructure that leverages synergistic reporting standards...

Transforming the National Security Culture: A report of the Harvard Kennedy School's Defense Leadership Project (2009)

Fernando Lujan, Paula Broadwell, Kent Park, Timm Balunis, George Bamford, Caitlin Costello, ...

The graduate students who initiated the Defense Leadership Project were deeply concerned that leaders within the defense community were increasingly ill-equipped to understand, visualize, or respond...

REGULAR ARTICLE Data management and preliminary data analysis in the pilot phase of the HUPO Plasma Proteome Project (2009)

Marcin Adamski, Thomas Blackwell, Rajasree Menon, Lennart Martens, Henning Hermjakob, Chris Taylor, ...

The pilot phase of the HUPO Plasma Proteome Project (PPP) is an international collaboration to catalog the protein composition of human blood plasma and serum by analyzing standardized aliquots of...

Queensland Library (2009)

Chris Taylor, Executive Manager, Information Access Service

Australian research is increasingly appearing in digital form, but much of it is hard to access. Journal articles may be accessible only to subscribers. No clear pathway exists to the research...

RDML: structured language and reporting guidelines for real-time quantitative PCR data (2009)

Lefever, Steve, Hellemans, Jan, Pattyn, Filip, Przybylski, Daniel R., Taylor, Chris, Geurts, René, ...

The XML-based Real-Time PCR Data Markup Language (RDML) has been developed by the RDML consortium (http://www.rdml.org) to enable straightforward exchange of qPCR data and related information between...

ARC Centre in Bioinformatics (2008)

Er Garcia, Susanna-assunta Sansone, Chris Taylor, Mark A, Embl Outstation Hinxton

Abstract. We briefly describe the methodology we have adopted in order to develop ontologies. Because our scenarios involved domain experts distributed geographically, the domain analysis and...

Executive Summary STERN REVIEW: The Economics of Climate Change (2008)

Catherine Cameron, Sebastian Catovsky, Di Crane, Sophie Cruickshank, Nicola Edmondson, Su-lin Garbett, ...

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response. This independent Review was commissioned by the Chancellor of...

ABS: The Apportioned Backup System (2008)

Joe Cooley, Chris Taylor, Alen Peacock

Many personal computers are operated with no backup strategy for protecting data in the event of loss or failure. At the same time, PCs are likely to contain spare disk space and unused networking...

Web Services for the DDSM and Digital Mammography Research (2008)

Chris Rose, Daniele Turi, Alan Williams, Katy Wolstencroft, Chris Taylor

Abstract. The Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) is an invaluable resource for digital mammography research. However, there are two particular shortcomings that can pose a significant...

Promoting coherent minimum reporting requirements for biological and biomedical investigations : The MIBBI Project. (2008)

Taylor, Chris, Field, Dawn, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Apweiler, Rolf, Ashburner, Michael, Ball, Cathy, ...

The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project aims to foster the coordinated development of minimum-information checklists and provide a resource for those...

The First RSBI (ISA-TAB) Workshop: "Can a Simple Format Work for Complex Studies?" (2008)

Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Brandizi, Marco, Brazma, Alvis, Field, Dawn, Fostel, Jennifer, ...

This article summarizes the motivation for, and the proceedings of, the first ISA-TAB workshop held December 6–8, 2007, at the EBI, Cambridge, UK. This exploratory workshop, organized by members of...

Texture Synthesis using Hidden Markov Measure Fields (2008)

Mike Rogers, Chris Taylor

Statistical models of shape and appearance are well-known to provide a powerful constraints in many areas of

Simultaneous extraction of functional face subspaces (2008)

Nicholas Costen, Tim Cootes, Gareth Edwards, Chris Taylor

Facial variation divides into a number of functional subspaces. An improved method of measuring these was designed, within the space defined by an Appearance Model. Initial estimates of the subspaces...

Groupwise Non-Rigid Registration of Medical Images: The Minimum Description Length Approach (2008)

Carole J. Twining, Stephen Marsl, Chris Taylor

Abstract. The aim of non-rigid registration as applied to a group of images is to find a ‘meaningful ’ dense spatial correspondence across the set. There are many methods available for finding...

Simultaneous extraction of functional face subspaces (2007)

Nicholas Costen, Tim Cootes, Gareth Edwards, Chris Taylor

Facial variation divides into a number of functional subspaces. An improved method of measuring these was designed, within the space defined by an Appearance Model. Initial estimates of the subspaces...

Comparison of ODP Viewpoints in Object-Z: A Case Study (2007)

Chris Taylor

The viewpoint approach to specication, in which a system is described by several partial specications, each dealing with a dierent aspect or perspective, has been proposed as a way of making complex...

Before (Unregistered) After (Registered) (2007)

Anna Mills, Chris Taylor, Tim Cootes, Carole Twining, Rhodri Davies, Vladimir Petrovic, ...

How fluid registration works: apply a vector-field transformation to the image constrain the transformation to be smooth

Proteomics and beyond : a report on the 3rd Annual Spring Workshop of the HUPO-PSI 21-23 April 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA. (2006)

Orchard, Sandra, Apweiler, Rolf, Barkovich, Robert, Field, Dawn, Garavelli, John S., Horn, David, ...

The theme of the third annual Spring workshop of the HUPO-PSI was proteomics and beyond and its underlying goal was to reach beyond the boundaries of the proteomics community to interact with groups...

Advocate for the arts : flaws, ethics, and the advocacy pyramid / (2006)

Taylor, Chris.

Thesis (M.A.) -- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

The MGED Ontology: a resource for semantics-based description of microarray experiments (2006)

Whetzel, Patricia L., Parkinson, Helen, Causton, Helen C., Fan, Liju, Fostel, Jennifer, Fragoso, Gilberto, ...

Motivation: The generation of large amounts of microarray data and the need to share these data bring challenges for both data management and annotation and highlights the need for standards. MIAME...

AN ACOUSTICAL BUBBLE COUNTER FOR SUPERHEATED DROP DETECTORS (2006)

Taylor, Chris, Montvila, Darius, Flynn, David, Brennan, Christopher, D'Errico, Francesco

A new bubble counter has been developed based on the well-established approach of detecting vaporization events acoustically in superheated drop detectors (SDDs). This counter is called the Framework...

An acoustical bubble counter for superheated drop detectors (2006)

Taylor, Chris, Montvila, Darius, Flynn, David, Brennan, Christopher, D'Errico, Francesco

A new bubble counter has been developed based on the well-established approach of detecting vaporization events acoustically in superheated drop detectors (SDDs). This counter is called the Framework...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Methodology article (2005)

Er Garcia Castro, Robert Stevens, Chris Taylor, Karim Nashar, Mark A Ragan, Assunta Sansone, ...

The use of concept maps during knowledge elicitation in ontology development processes – the nutrigenomics use case

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the “Information Age” (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society’s and businesses’ reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the...

The use of conceptual maps for two ontology developments: nutrigenomics, and a management system for genealogies. (2005)

Garcia, Alexander, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Taylor, Chris, Ragan, Mark A.

We briefly describe the methodology we have adopted in order to develop ontologies. Because our scenarios involved domain experts distributed geographically, the domain analysis and knowledge...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the "Information Age" (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society's and businesses' reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the management...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the "Information Age" (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society's and businesses' reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the management...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the "Information Age" (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society's and businesses' reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the management...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the "Information Age" (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society's and businesses' reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the management...

Reference Models for IT Service Provision (2005)

Taylor, Chris

The new age, the "Information Age" (Davenport and Prusak 1997) has increased society's and businesses' reliance on Information Technology (IT). Hence, there is an increasing focus on the management...

Criteria for Choosing Repository Software (2004)

Taylor, Chris

This short report looks at Free Open Source OAI-PMH compliant software, as at 17 November 2004.

Your Place Or Mine? Showcasing eResearch via an Institutional Repository (2004)

Taylor, Chris, Weaver, Belinda

University research output is increasingly appearing in digital form, but published research currently reaches a limited audience. Much academic writing is locked away behind subscription barriers....

Criteria for Choosing Repository Software (2004)

Taylor, Chris

This short report looks at Free Open Source OAI-PMH compliant software, as at 17 November 2004.

Your Place Or Mine? Showcasing eResearch via an Institutional Repository (2004)

Taylor, Chris, Weaver, Belinda

University research output is increasingly appearing in digital form, but published research currently reaches a limited audience. Much academic writing is locked away behind subscription barriers....

Measuring geodesic distances on the space of bounded diffeomorphisms (2002)

Carole Twining, Stephen Marsl, Chris Taylor

This paper considers the problem of measuring the differences between deformations. It is intended to be applied in the context of applications such as the analysis of sets of non-rigidly registered...

Measuring Geodesic Distances on the Space of (2002)

Bounded Diffeomorphisms Carole, Carole Twining, Stephen Marsl, Chris Taylor

This paper considers the problem of measuring the differences between deformations.

An Improved Method of Computing ScaleOrientation Signatures (2001)

Chris Rose, Chris Taylor

Abstract: Scale-Orientation Pixel Signatures provide a rich description of the neighbourhood around each image pixel. In Computer-Aided Mammography these signatures can be used as feature vectors for...

An Improved Method of Computing ScaleOrientation Signatures (2001)

Chris Rose, Chris Taylor

Abstract: Scale-Orientation Pixel Signatures provide a rich description of the neighbourhood around each image pixel. In Computer-Aided Mammography these signatures can be used as feature vectors for...

Int. J. Human–Computer Studies (1997) 47, 289—322 Comparison of contrasting Prolog trace output formats (1996)

Mukesh J. Patel, Benedict Du Boulay, Chris Taylor

This paper reports on a comparative study of three Prolog trace packages. Forty-three students of an introductory Prolog course solved five different Prolog programming problems in each of three...

REFLECTIONS ON THE STERN REVIEW (2)A Growing International Opportunity to Move Strongly on Climate Change

Lorraine Hamid, Nicholas Stern, Chris Taylor

This paper highlights the basic economic principles behind the policy recommendations in the Stern Review and takes forward the analysis and proposals of the Review. It is written in the light of...

Right for the Right Reasons

Simon Dietz, Dennis Anderson, Nicholas Stern, Chris Taylor, Dimitri Zenghelis

Four authors of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and Dennis Anderson who provided advice and background papers for the Review, make a final rejoinder on the debate about the...

The role of residence in school segregation: placing the impact of parental choice in perspective

Chris Taylor, Stephen Gorard

There have been many claims that the introduction of parental choice for schools in the United Kingdom would lead to further socioeconomic segregation between schools. However, little evidence of...

RDML: structured language and reporting guidelines for real-time quantitative PCR data

Lefever, Steve, Hellemans, Jan, Pattyn, Filip, Przybylski, Daniel R., Taylor, Chris, Geurts, René, ...

The XML-based Real-Time PCR Data Markup Language (RDML) has been developed by the RDML consortium (http://www.rdml.org) to enable straightforward exchange of qPCR data and related information between...