BioGateway: a semantic systems biology tool for the life sciences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life scientists need help in coping with the plethora of fast growing and scattered knowledge resources. Ideally, this knowledge should be integrated in a form that allows them to pose complex questions that address the properties of biological systems, independently from the origin of the knowledge. Semantic Web technologies prove to be well suited for knowledge integration, knowledge production (hypothesis formulation), knowledge querying and knowledge maintenance.

Results

We implemented a semantically integrated resource named BioGateway, comprising the entire set of the OBO foundry candidate ontologies, the GO annotation files, the SWISS-PROT protein set, the NCBI taxonomy and several in-house ontologies. BioGateway provides a single entry point to query these

SUBMITTER: Antezana E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2755819 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature