Using the Semantic Web for Rapid Integration of WikiPathways with Other Biological Online Data Resources.

ABSTRACT: The diversity of online resources storing biological data in different formats provides a challenge for bioinformaticians to integrate and analyse their biological data. The semantic web provides a standard to facilitate knowledge integration using statements built as triples describing a relation between two objects. WikiPathways, an online collaborative pathway resource, is now available in the semantic web through a SPARQL endpoint at http://sparql.wikipathways.org. Having biological pathways in the semantic web allows rapid integration with data from other resources that contain information about elements present in pathways using SPARQL queries. In order to convert WikiPathways content into meaningful triples we developed two new vocabularies that capture the graphical representation

SUBMITTER: Waagmeester A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4918977 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature