Background Current search engines are keyword-based. Semantic technologies promise a
next generation of semantic search engines, which will be able to answer questions. Current …

Background Currently, most people use NCBI's PubMed to search the MEDLINE database,
an important bibliographical information source for life science and biomedical information …

Although various ontologies and knowledge sources have been developed in recent years
to facilitate biomedical research, it is difficult to assimilate information from multiple …

Ontologies are now pervasive in biomedicine, where they serve as a means to standardize
terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to …

Abstract The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the National Centers
for Biomedical Computing funded under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Contributing to the …

Data-driven genomic research requires accessing several repositories of genomic datasets,
produced by international consortia, which provide open access to extremely valuable and …

In medical research, one of major challenges is to archive, access, and analyse various
heterogeneous databases containing patient information gathered from a large volume of …

Ontologies are widely used constructs for encoding and analyzing biomedical data, but the
absence of simple and consistent tools has made exploratory and systematic analysis of …

One of the key promises of the Semantic Web is its potential to enable and facilitate data
interoperability. The ability of data providers and application developers to share and reuse …

This thesaurus-based search system uses automatic indexing, RDF-based querying, and
concept-based visualization of results to support exploration of large online document …