In recent years, technological advances in high-throughput techniques and efficient data
gathering methods, coupled with a world-wide effort in computational biology, have resulted …

The eagle-i project has been developing a semantic search portal for biomedical research
resources. A unique feature of eagle-i is that the data collection and search tools are …

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

There is a huge growth in the volume of published biomedical research in recent years.
Many medical search engines are designed and developed to address the over growing …

The ability to retrieve relevant information is at the heart of every aspect of research and
development in the life sciences industry. Information is often distributed across multiple …

Background Because of the increasing number of electronic resources, designing efficient
tools to retrieve and exploit them is a major challenge. Some improvements have been …

Ontologies have proven to be useful in the area of Information Retrieval and the biomedical
informatics community has acknowledged, in recent years, their utility. However, building …

New knowledge is produced at a continuously increasing speed, and the list of papers,
databases and other knowledge sources that a researcher in the life sciences needs to cope …

The volume of publicly available genomic scale data is increasing. Genomic datasets in
public repositories are annotated with free-text fields describing the pathological state of the …

The life sciences are a promising application area for semantic web technologies as there
are large online structured and unstructured data repositories and ontologies, which …