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 …

Current research in biology heavily depends on the availability and efficient use of
information. In order to build new knowledge, various sources of biological data must often …

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 …

Biological ontologies define the basic terms and relations in biological domains and are
being used among others, as community reference, as the basis for interoperability between …

The past twenty years have witnessed an explosion of biological data in diverse database
formats governed by heterogeneous infrastructures. Not only are semantics (attribute terms) …

Background Life scientists need help in coping with the plethora of fast growing and
scattered knowledge resources. Ideally, this knowledge should be integrated in a form that …

Abstract The Semantic Web for the Life Sciences (SWLS), when realized, will dramatically
improve our ability to conduct bioinformatics analyses using the vast and growing stores of …

Molecular biology offers a large, complex and volatile domain that tests knowledge
representation techniques to the limit of their fidelity, precision, expressivity and adaptability …

Bio-ontologies are a relatively recent achievement of the bioinformatic effort toward an
efficient organization and distribution of biological data. They provide a structured, controlled …

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 …