Agronomic Linked Data (AgroLD): A knowledge-based system to enable integrative biology in agronomy.

ABSTRACT: Recent advances in high-throughput technologies have resulted in a tremendous increase in the amount of omics data produced in plant science. This increase, in conjunction with the heterogeneity and variability of the data, presents a major challenge to adopt an integrative research approach. We are facing an urgent need to effectively integrate and assimilate complementary datasets to understand the biological system as a whole. The Semantic Web offers technologies for the integration of heterogeneous data and their transformation into explicit knowledge thanks to ontologies. We have developed the Agronomic Linked Data (AgroLD- www.agrold.org), a knowledge-based system relying on Semantic Web technologies and exploiting standard domain ontologies, to integrate data about plant species of

SUBMITTER: Venkatesan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269127 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature