2.0 LPBI, Strategy #2: Blockchain Transactions Network Ecosystem
Strategy Selection: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Blockchain Infrastructure – The PLATFORM to sell Journal Articles, e-Books, e–Proceedings & Tweet Collections and Biological Images
UPDATED ON 1/17/2022
Erich wrote:
“Ontologies and taxonomies are in many ways similar — they describe types of things, and are arranged in a hierarchical structure. The way they differ is in their level of formality of their semantic relationships: taxonomies tend to relate classes using only is_a, e.g. kidney is_a organ is_a anatomical structure whereas ontologies use a more expressive set of pre-defined relationships such as part_of, develops_from. In fact, both systems of description might be thought of as being on a spectrum with increasingly strong semantics, from a collection of terms (tags) to enhance categorization (a ‘folksonomy’), through to an ontology which is a formal logical description of a domain with classes and relationships that operate between them”
Aviva wrote:
LPBI’s Journal with 6,200 article represent a subset of a FULLY BLOWN ONTOLOGY of the biological Sciences
- The categories represent a taxonomy
- Several categories, i.e., Cancer Biology and Frontiers in Cardiology – are full blown ontologies and few others
- We NEED TO USE WHAT WE HAVE in the categories because LPBI is not able to continue at the pace of NEW article generation as in any time in the past
- I will look at the two reference LINKs you provided
- The Keywords Extractions from articles in the Books for NLP – THAT PROCESS was done so far for 2 books, another two are work in progress
- MAX number of books for NLP will be N=6 not N=18 !!!
- ALL 18 books use ~2,000 articles
- Journal has 6,200 articles
- Performance of NLP on EACH article is not recommended
- Performance of NLP on EACH Category is the SECRET SAUCE of LPBI
- Wolfram NLP Process we use involve MANUAL operations:
(1) produce a Merged File from a collection of articles:
1.1 all articles in a Book Chapter
1.2 all articles in a research category – the big ones have +500 articles
(2) MANUAL domain knowledge expert needs to INSPECT all keyword EXTRACTED and CLEAN the list for APPROVED LIST
(3) Production of Plots [Hypergraph, Tree Diagram] record APPROVED LIST inside the code for the PLOTS
These manual operations OPPOSE scaling which NLP on all articles in a research category – the big ones have +500 articles require
Thus, to extract the LPBI’s SECRET SAUSE – we need platforms like LINGUAMATICS and IBM WATSON
- That is not on Aviva’s watch – ending on 4/30/2025.
Aviva WROTE:
At the beginning of every Chapter you will see graphics one hyper-graph plot and one Tree Diagram plot [split into several segment]
The title of the graph specifies the keywords that were extracted from the MERGED file of all the articles in this Chapter
- These keywords require MANUAL culling into a subset that should serve as INPUT to the Plots
- There keywords can be treated as tags
- On the blockchain we intend to SELL each Plot
- On the blockchain we intend to SELL each Interpretation like the last two slides in the attachment
- In a B2C Scenario: A knowledge worker type a query
- Option 1: one article with most views on the topic is shown on the screen
- Option 2: 12 top articles are fetched from the Journal archive ranked by views
- Option 3: computer advise [Recommendation Engine] the knowledge worker: x articles in this 12 were published in the following books
- Option 4: do you wish to see the NLP results of these articles in the context of the chapter they are included in the books?
- Option 5: if yes, then Hyper-graph and Tree diagram stored in the DB is retrieved and appears on the screen
- Option 6: do you wish to read the interpretation of the Domain Knowledge Expert for these graphs?
- Option 7: if yes, Interpretation Box appears on the screen
- Option 8: Knowledge worker wish to download to his computer Options 2,3,4,5,6,7,
- Option 9: Price for Option 2 = $20, Option 3 = #40$ Option 4,5,6,7 =$35 each
- Option 10: Form with itemized contents for a total of $200
- Option 11: Credit card online payment
- Option 12: all paid for items are downloaded to the B2C Knowledge worker CART
- THAT IS A TRANSACTION OF CONTNET MONETIZATION recorded on the blockchain
The keywords are relevant for Option 4, 5, above
Erich wrote:
All that said – I do not believe selling these outputs on the blockchain is a practical plan at this point. In short, people/organizations(b2b) consumers of this sort of data do not transact in crypto yet/today. This is a forward looking opportunity, but not practical from a business perspective now. That isn’t to say it shouldn’t be part of the plan, but I want to be realistic about the time horizon for such a market.
I have found a few examples of emerging platforms. I saw today that RMDS Labs has announced an NFT marketplace along these lines, but this is a nascent space. I think it makes great sense to make moves here, because it reflects innovation and good long term strategy, I just want you to be realistic about the timeline for it being a real revenue source.
Aviva says:
We need to have a Plan for Content Monetization
UPDATED ON 12/20/2021
From: Erich Greenebaum <erich@prosperci.com>
Date: Monday, December 20, 2021 at 1:06 PM
To: “Dr. Stephen J. Williams” <sjwilliamspa@comcast.net>
Cc: Aviva Lev-Ari <aviva.lev-ari@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: The NFT Market Is Already Centralized
UPDATED ON 12/18/2021
From: Erich Greenebaum <erich@prosperci.com>
Date: Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 12:37 PM
To: Aviva Lev-Ari <aviva.lev-ari@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: The NFT Market Is Already Centralized
Dear Aviva,
I hope this note finds you feeling well.
OpenSea is the biggest market for NFTs presently, but it is a market mostly for artistic content – my research hasn’t turned up any IP-as-NFT there of the sort LPBI might contemplate, and generally I would see it as “off brand” for them to branch into this space, although obviously assumptions are dangerous. One reason I don’t see OpenSea moving in this direction is around discovery – in short, the sort of knowledge graph / semantic-web style methods of discovery suited to academic and/or patent style content or, especially, some of the more ambitious notions around “molecules as a service” being tossed around at LPBI. I expect to see more ambitious marketplaces in the future that leverage these approaches, but at preset OpenSea works more as a catalog of art collections.
It’s also important not to intermingle concepts too much here – Ethereum is the layer-1 blockchain/smart contract blockchain most of the OpenSea assets are built on, not a marketplace in its own right. Likewise, both Fluree and BurstIQ are database technologies built atop proprietary blockchains of their own, and so they are not analogous to either a marketplace like OpenSea, or a permissionless style layer-1 blockchain like Ethereum.
It’s worth noting that Fluree has recently entered into a project with folks in the Cardano blockchain space to serve as a “side chain” database of sorts. Cardano is a competing layer-1 technology developed by one of the original Ethereum developers. It has a longer opportunity horizon than Ethereum, but is built on what they claim is a far more rigorous, peer reviewed, methodology. I’ve also mentioned “The Graph” in the past as an “indexing layer” on top of blockchains, which is a powerful discovery mechanism working across chains.
Anyway, these things are not analogous, and as always, we need to separate concerns when architecting technology solutions – in our case, blockchain is a system of record to track provenance and change history, and facilitate the minting of assets as NFTS integrated with possible DAOs; knowledge graphs are systems for discovery and linked data; marketplaces facilitate transactions around those assets. Note that it may prove advantageous to be on multiple marketplaces.
I hope this provides some useful context.
Kind Regards,
Erich
On Dec 16, 2021, at 10:08 PM, Aviva Lev-Ari <aviva.lev-ari@comcast.net> wrote:
Please all review article, below
Please research OpenSea marketplace
How it would compare with BurstIQ, Fluree and Ethereum in terms of minimizing the utility LPBI Group’s IP Asset Classes of relevance to NFT status could enjoy for our Content monetization strategy using blockchain?
Please each form an idea on that matters for group discussion in our forthcoming • 2.0 LPBI’s Global Zoom Monthly Meeting in January 2022, date TBA
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/18/the-nft-market-is-already-centralized/
The NFT Market Is Already Centralized
UPDATED ON 11/13/2021
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UPDATED ON 9/3/2021
From: Aviva Lev-Ari <avivalev-ari@alum.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 10:40 PM
To: Erich Greenebaum <erich@prosperci.com>, “Dr. Stephen J. Williams” <sjwilliamspa@comcast.net>, Sandra Batista <sandra.batista@lmu.edu>
Subject: Aviva’s THOUGHT following Erich’s Debriefing on Fluree Meeting, 9/1/2021
Dear All,
Great initiative by Erich to contact Fluree directly and explain
- LPBI Data scope for the venture.
I have few questions to ask on Erich’s e-mail:
From: Erich Greenebaum <erich@prosperci.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 5:19 PM
To: Aviva Lev-Ari <AvivaLev-Ari@alum.berkeley.edu>, “Dr. Stephen J. Williams” <sjwilliamspa@comcast.net>, Sandra Batista <sandra.batista@lmu.edu>
Subject: Fluree Meeting
Greetings All
I had a very interesting meeting with Brian Platz, who is one of the co-founders of Fluree. Key take-aways:
- The Fluree SPARQL interface doesn’t support the UPDATE function presently, so that will not be a direct interface for writing data into Fluree. Brian says several people have requested the feature, so it is on their roadmap.
- That said, a function can be written in Wolfram to write data directly using JSON-LD, which Wolfram supports natively, so this is basically a non-issue.
- Once the content is in Fluree, Wolfram would be able to READ data directly from it, which may be a powerful feature in its own right.
- Very interestingly, they are working on a new “Data Hub” concept that holds exciting promise for LPBI – you can think of it as a GitHub for databases. Amongst other important features, it will be able to create RDF links between databases – so, for example, between LPBI data and PubMed, etc. He says this feature maybe in beta by the end of this quarter and we could be an ideal candidate project. I think this can be a very powerful feature for:
- Enriching the LPBI knowledge graph with external sources
- Powering discovery for the marketplace
- Brian is very clued into the possibilities of monitoring the edge-space of the graph, which is a key value proposition to come out of this project/system.
In short, they are interested in collaborating, although they won’t have programming resources to directly apply to the work. That said, having established a relationship with Brian, I’m sure we will get good support from their team on Slack, etc, for our efforts.
Dr. Batista – I will work on a more complete list of skills for recruiting students – one key aspect of Fluree is that it uses the Clojure programming language (which is a Lisp analog) for the “smart function” piece. I doubt this will be a key driver for our initial efforts, because these functions are mostly about governing data access and transactions (which will be important as we develop the marketplace features in the future), but anyone with Lisp or Clojure experience would be a welcome addition to the team.
Also, based on the discovery about SPARQL updates – someone with familiarity with both wolfram and JSON-LD would be ideal.
Finally, familiarity with beset practices around CI/CD workflows, GitHub, etc will be helpful in terms of managing code and iterative deployment.
I’ll look forward to more discussions next week.
Best Regards,
Erich
This Project has the following core parts:
Core Part 1: The archive of 6,080 articles
- This archive hosts all the articles in 18 Books ~2,000, namely,
- This archive hosts all the articles NOT in books ~ 4,000
- 100 volumes of e-Proceedings a Tweet Collections
- In this archive – each article has 1 to n Biological Images with English Text as Legend(s)
- All +6,000 Biological Images are in the Media Gallery
- In a Book there are on average 20 Chapters
- Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One WordCloud per article – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Bar Diagram of Concept Frequencies per article – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Hypergraph for ALL articles in a Chapter – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Tree Diagram for ALL articles in a Chapter — Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- If NLP produced on average 42 ADDITIONAL graphs per Chapter
- Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- Namely 840 NEW graphs per Book times 18 Books = ~15,000 new graphs for the BOOKS = for 2,000 articles
- For the 4,000 articles NOT in books an additional 30,000 new graphs
For NLP
- Every item mentioned here is a USE CASE
For Fluree
- All NLP Products FOR THE EXISTING archive is ~50,000 graphs
For Content monetization
- Each article is a USE CASE that needs to be indexed
Core Part 2: Knowledge graph SCHEMA design for Fluree’s Blockchain Database
- Use Case: Author of an article or Article Title
- Classifiers for each Use Case
- INDEXING
- Nodes and Edges population for the schema
Core Part 3: Interface with Wolfram NLP allowing for creation of LPBI Deep Learning NLP SOPs
GENERATE for each article
- One WordCloud per article – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Bar Diagram of Concept Frequencies per article – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Hypergraph for ALL articles in a Chapter – Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
- One Tree Diagram for ALL articles in a Chapter — Each Chapter in a Book has on average 20 articles
Core Part 4: Enable Transactions
- Front-End – GUI
- Back-End – Immutable ledger
Core Part 5: System Integration and Testing
Core Part 6: Deploy the System for Content Monetization
UPDATED on 2/2/2021
UPDATED-Data Architecture for Blockchain Deployment of Digital Assets: LPBI IP Asset Classes I,II,III,V
Author: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
UPDATED on 1/3/2021
Data Architecture for Blockchain Deployment of Digital Assets: LPBI IP Asset Classes I,II,III,V
Author: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Announcing Strategic Transition from 1.0 LPBI to 2.0 LPBI on 1/1/2021: New Management, Marketing Communication and New Scientific/Technical Opportunities
Author: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
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Competitors in Blockchain specializing in Healthcare include the following:
| Type | Private | |
| Founded | 2015 | |
| HQ | Colorado Springs, US | Map |
| Website | burstiq.com |
| Employees (est.) (Oct 2020) | 29 | (-3%) |
| Cybersecurity rating | B | More |
HQ
Princeton, US
Employees
2,378↑ 2% increase
We help healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology, Operations and Medical expertise.
HQ
London, GB
Employees
50↓ 4% decrease
Doctify is a company operating an online platform that connects patients with the doctors.
HQ
Medley, US
Employees
10↓ 9% decrease
We are a young and driven biotech startup team based in Miami, Florida. Our aim is to create a cost-effective platform for regular health monitoring.
HQ
London, GB
Employees
1
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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What they do: Factom creates products that help the healthcare industry securely store digital records on the company’s blockchain platform that’s accessible only by hospitals and healthcare administrators. Physical papers can be equipped with special Factom security chips that hold information about a patient and stored as private data that is accessible only by authorized people.
Blockchain application: Factom employs blockchain technology to securely store digital health records.
Real-life impact: In June of 2018, Factom got a grant of nearly $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to beta-test a platform aimed at integrating secure data from Border Patrol cameras and sensors in order to better understand the impacts of blockchain in “a realistic field environment.”
MEDICALCHAIN
Industry: Electronic Health Record, Medical
Location: London, England
What they do: Medicalchain’s blockchain maintains the integrity of health records while establishing a single point of truth. Doctors, hospitals and laboratories can all request patient information that has a record of origin and protects the patient’s identity from outside sources.
Blockchain application: Medicalchain’s blockchain-based platform maintains a record of origin and protects patient identity.
Real-life impact: In May of 2018, Medicalchain announced the release of MyClinic.com. A telemedicine platform, MyClinic enables patients to consult with their doctors via video and pay for those consultations with “MedTokens.”
GUARDTIME
Industry: Cybersecurity, Blockchain
Location: Irvine, California
What they do: Guardtime is helping healthcare companies and governments implement blockchain into their cybersecurity methods. The company was vital in helping implement blockchain in Estonia’s healthcare systems, and it recently signed a deal with a private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates to bring blockchain to its data privacy systems.
Blockchain application: Guardtime employs blockchain for cybersecurity applications, including healthcare.
Real-life impact: Guardtime recently teamed with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to deploy several platform services based on Guardtime’s Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) Blockchain.
SIMPLYVITAL HEALTH
Industry: AI, Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Personal Health
Location: Watertown, Massachusetts
What they do: SimplyVital Health is making its decentralized technology available to the healthcare industry. It’s Nexus Health platform is an open source database that allows healthcare providers, on a patient’s blockchain, to access pertinent information. Open access to important medical information helps healthcare professionals coordinate medical efforts more quickly than traditional methods.
Blockchain application: SimplyVital uses blockchain to create an open source database so healthcare providers can access patient information and coordinate care.
Real-life impact: SimplyVital recently partnered with genemics and precision medicine company Shivom to form a Global Healthcare Blockchain Alliance that employs blockchain security to protect DNA sequencing data.
CORAL HEALTH RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Industry: Healthcare, IT
Location: Vancouver, Canada
What they do: Coral Health uses blockchain to accelerate the care process, automate administrative processes and improve health outcomes. By inserting patient information into distributed ledger technology, the company connects doctors, scientists, lab technicians and public health authorities quicker than ever. Coral Health also implements smart contracts between patients and healthcare professionals to ensure data and treatments are accurate.
Blockchain application: Coral’s blockchain technology accelerates care, automates administrative processes and employs smart contracts between patients and doctors.
Real-life impact: According to Coral’s chief strategy officer Jeremy Mullin, the company is looking into the possibility of using a blockchain and the Smart on FHIR protocol “to let patients track their own health files.”
ROBOMED
Industry: Blockchain, Medicine
Location: Moscow, Russia
What they do: Robomed combines AI and blockchain to offer patients a single point of care. The company deploys chatbots, wearable diagnostic tools and telemedicine sessions to gather patient information and share it with the patient’s medical team. Robomeds Panacea platform engages patients into smart contracts that incentivize and lead them down the path to better health.
Blockchain application: Robomed uses blockchain to securely gather patient information and share it with a patient’s healthcare providers.
Real-life impact: The Taipei Medical University Hospital recently implemented blockchain technology, including Robomed’s network, to more securely store and share medical records.
PATIENTORY
Industry: Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, IT
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
What they do: Patientory’s end-to-end encryption ensures that patient data is shared safely and efficiently. The company’s platform enables patients, healthcare providers and clinicians to access, store and transfer all important information via blockchain. Patientory helps the healthcare industry to move more quickly by housing all patient information under one roof.
Blockchain application: Patientory’s blockchain platform enables the secure storage and transfer of important medical information.
Real-life impact: Patientory recently hosted its first North American Blockchain in Healthcare Summitthat gathered hundreds of healthcare professionals to discuss and learn about blockchain-based healthcare applications.
CHRONICLED
Industry: Blockchain, Supply Chain Management
Location: San Francisco, California
What they do: Chronicled builds blockchain networks that demonstrate chain-of-custody. The networks help pharma companies make sure their medicines arrive efficiently, and they enable law enforcement to review any suspicious activity — like drug trafficking. In 2017, Chronicled created the Mediledger Project, a ledger system dedicated to the safety, privacy and efficiency of medical supply chains.
Blockchain application: Chronicle’d blockchain network is used to ensure the safe arrival and detailed review of drug shipments.
Real-life impact: According to the company, results from Chronicled’s recent MediLedger Project prove that its blockchain-based system “is capable of acting as the interoperable system for the pharmaceutical supply chain” and “can meet the data privacy requirements of the pharmaceutical industry itself.”
BLOCKPHARMA
Industry: Blockchain, Pharmaceuticals, Supply Chain
Location: Paris, France
What they do: Blockpharma offers a solution to drug traceability and counterfeiting. By scanning the supply chain and verifying all points of shipment, the company’s app lets patients know if they are taking falsified medicines With the help of a blockchain-based SCM system, Blockpharma weeds out the 15% of all medicines in the world that are fake.
Blockchain application: Through its app, the company’s blockchain-based system can help prevent patients from taking counterfeit medicines.
TIERION
Industry: Saas, Blockchain
Location: Mountain View, California
What they do: Tierion’s blockchain audits documents, records and medicines to keep a clear history of possession. The company uses timestamps and credentials to maintain proof of ownership throughout a medical supply chain.
Blockchain application: The company uses blockchain to maintain a clear possession history within medical supply chains.
Real-life impact: Tierion recently proposed a “multi-network coin” that could make Bitcoin more versatile and applicable.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Industry: Government Agency, Healthcare, Security
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
What they do: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking into blockchain to monitor diseases in a supply chain-like manner. The U.S. Government agency says blockchain’s timestamps, peer-to-peer health reporting and data processing capabilities can help report disease outbreak in real-time. By studying the trail of reported outbreaks, scientists can find the origin of a disease and patterns that help suppress disease. The CDC might also employ blockchain to track the opioid epidemic.
Blockchain application: The CDC uses blockchain to monitor diseases and report outbreaks in real time.
Real-life impact: IBM is working with the CDC to develop a blockchain-based surveillance system so public health agencies can more effectively gather data about patients and prescriptions.
NEBULA GENOMICS
Industry: Biotechnology, Genetics
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
What they do:Nebula Genomics is using distributed ledger technology to eliminate unnecessary spending and middlemen in the genetic studying process. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies spend billions of dollars each year acquiring genetic data from third parties. Nebula Genomics is helping to build a giant genetic database by eliminating expensive middlemen and incentivizing users to safely sell their encrypted genetic data.
Blockchain application: The company uses blockchain to streamline the study of genetics and lower costs.
ENCRYPGEN
Industry: Blockchain, Data-Sharing
Location: Coral Springs, Florida
What they do: The EncrypGen Gene-Chain is a blockchain-backed platform that facilitates the searching, sharing, storage, buying and selling of genetic information. The company protects its users’ privacy by allowing only other members to purchase the genetic information using safe, traceable DNA tokens. Member companies can use the genetic information to build upon their genetic knowledge and advance the industry.
Blockchain application: The company’s blockchain platform makes it easier to search for, share, store and buy genetic information.
Real-life impact: EncrypGen plans to expand its user profile to include self-reported medical and behavioral data. According to company co-founder and CEO Dr. David Koepsell, it’s also working on integrating a blockchain payment and auditing platform as well as forming partnerships with testing companies, analytics software developers and others.
DOC.AI
Industry: AI, Blockchain, Medical, Software
Location: Palo Alto, California
What they do: Doc.ai uses machine intelligence, like AI, to decentralize medicine on the blockchain. Users can opt into the company’s platform to share their medical and genomic data with a community of scientists that use the data for predictive modeling. doc.ai saves no patient data. Once information is uploaded, encrypted on a blockchain and used in a trial, the data is wiped out in order to ensure security and privacy.
Blockchain application: The company’s employs machine intelligence (like AI) to decentralize medical data on the blockchain.
Real-life impact: The company recently partnered with health insurer Anthem tostudy the use of artificial intelligence in predicting the occurrence of allergic reactions.
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