The biomedical research community relies on a diverse set of resources, both within their
own institutions and at other research centers. In addition, an increasing number of shared …

The volume of publicly available data in biomedicine is constantly increasing. However,
these data are stored in different formats and on different platforms. Integrating these data …

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 …

Resource discovery systems may assist scientists in the selection of bioinformatics
resources suitable to implement scientific workflows. In this paper we address several …

An integrated data repository (IDR) containing aggregations of clinical, biomedical,
economic, administrative, and public health data is a key component of an overall …

The complex questions and analyses posed by biologists, as well as the diverse data
resources they develop, require the fusion of evidence from different, independently …

Ontologies are becoming critical to e-Science, but there are challenges for the community to
find the ontologies relevant to their work, to declare mappings among related ontologies …

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 …

Background Ontologies provide domain knowledge to drive data integration, information
retrieval, natural-language processing, and decision support. The National Center for …

The semantic web remains in the early stages of development. It has not yet achieved the
goals envisioned by its founders as a pervasive web of distributed knowledge and …