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 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 …

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 …

Biomedical researchers need to be able to ask questions that span many heterogeneous
data sources in order to make well-informed decisions that may lead to important scientific …

Abstract Health Care and the Life Sciences (HCLS) are at the leading edge of applying
advanced information technologies for the purpose of knowledge management and …

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 …

Life science is a knowledge-based discipline and success in the life sciences is based on
access to knowledge. Scientists typically need to integrate a spectrum of information to …

Abstract The Semantic Web offers an ideal platform for representing and linking biomedical
information, which is a prerequisite for the development and application of analytical tools to …

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 …

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 …