Submissions tagged with Semantic Web
(12 documents)
Extracting conclusion sections from PubMed abstracts for rapid key assertion integration in biomedical research
Key assertions are extracted from “conclusions” sections of PubMed abstracts andconverted into Semantic Web / Linked Data format. The results are made accessible viafiles, a SPARQL endpoint, an…
Received 17 September 2009 10:35 UTC; Posted 21 September 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Metarel: an Ontology to support the inferencing of Semantic Web relations within Biomedical Ontologies
While OWL, the Web Ontology Language, is often regarded as the preferred language for Knowledge Representation in the world of the Semantic Web, the potential of direct representation in RDF, the R…
Received 06 August 2009 11:55 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Data Curation in Biology – Past, Present and Future
Data curation has been critical in the development of biology from Darwin and Linnaeus to UniProt, the careful collection and organisation of data has been the spring from which new hypotheses and …
Received 06 May 2009 08:51 UTC; Posted 12 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
UniProt in RDF: Tackling Data Integration and Distributed Annotation with the Semantic Web
The UniProt knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is a comprehensive repository of protein sequence and annotation data. We collect information from the scientific literature and other databases and provide li…
Received 28 April 2009 13:14 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Enhanced display of scientific articles using extended metadata
Although the Web has transformed science publishing, scientific papers themselves are still essentially “black boxes”, with much of their content intended for human readers only. Typically, comput…
Received 24 April 2009 16:36 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics
Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover glo…
Received 17 April 2009 17:21 UTC; Posted 17 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Visualising a scientific article
This paper describes my entry in the Elsevier Grand Challenge “Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences” contest. The entry takes a collection of fulltext issues of _Molecular Phylogenetics and …
Received 28 November 2008 16:15 UTC; Posted 28 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
Embedding machine-readable proteins interactions data in scientific articles for easy access and retrieval
Extraction of protein-protein interactions data from scientific literature remains a hard, time- and resource-consuming task. This task would be greatly simplified by embedding in the source, i.e. ...
Received 29 September 2008 14:22 UTC; Posted 01 October 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics
What are the ethical and social responsibilities of scientists?
Presented as part of the session titled “Sharing scientific data: who benefits?” at ESOF (The Euroscience Open Forum) 2008.Session abstract: Digital datasets—text-based, numeric, audio, video o…
Received 13 August 2008 14:43 UTC; Posted 19 August 2008
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Biodiversity informatics: the challenge of linking data and the role of shared identifiers
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifier linking records…
Received 03 April 2008 16:51 UTC; Posted 03 April 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
