Background A fundamental goal of the US National Institute of Health (NIH)" Roadmap" is to
strengthen Translational Research, defined as the movement of discoveries in basic …

Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-
management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can …

Most bio text-mining efforts so far have focused on identification of biological, molecular and
chemical entities from the literature to support knowledge acquisition and discovery in the …

This contribution presents the principal features of ontologies, drawing special attention to
the comparison between ontologies and the different kinds of knowledge organization …

We present our ongoing development of a semantic infrastructure supporting biofuel
research. Part of this effort is the automatic curation of knowledge from the massive amount …

I. INTRODUCTION Searching everything everywhere is becoming our habit when we need
to find something. However, finding what we need is often a hard job. Current search engine …

The biological community requires more sophisticated methods to store, integrate and query
their knowledge. The semantic Web technology enables to represent, share and discover …

Translational research, the effort to couple the results of basic research to clinical
applications, depends on the ability to effectively answer questions using information that …

Abstract The Semantic Web aims at adding semantic knowledge into the web of natural
language hypertext, enabling deep-level information search and information integration …

The volume of biomedical literature is increasing at such a rate that it is becoming difficult to
locate, retrieve and manage the reported information without text mining, which aims to …