Title |
Applications and methods utilizing the Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP) for bioinformatics resource discovery and disparate data and service integration
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Published in |
BioData Mining, June 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-0381-3-3 |
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Authors |
Rex T Nelson, Shulamit Avraham, Randy C Shoemaker, Gregory D May, Doreen Ware, Damian DG Gessler |
Abstract |
Scientific data integration and computational service discovery are challenges for the bioinformatic community. This process is made more difficult by the separate and independent construction of biological databases, which makes the exchange of data between information resources difficult and labor intensive. A recently described semantic web protocol, the Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP; pronounced "swap") offers the ability to describe data and services in a semantically meaningful way. We report how three major information resources (Gramene, SoyBase and the Legume Information System [LIS]) used SSWAP to semantically describe selected data and web services. |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
Other | 5 | 8% |
Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 8% |
Other | 17 | 29% |
Unknown | 4 | 7% |
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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 8% |
Arts and Humanities | 3 | 5% |
Other | 11 | 19% |
Unknown | 6 | 10% |