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Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web
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 address problems in data-intensive areas such as systems biology and translational medicine. As for any new paradigm, the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21388570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S1 |
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author | Splendiani, Andrea Burger, Albert Paschke, Adrian Romano, Paolo Marshall, M Scott |
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description | 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 address problems in data-intensive areas such as systems biology and translational medicine. As for any new paradigm, the adoption of the Semantic Web offers opportunities and poses questions and challenges to the life sciences scientific community: which technologies in the Semantic Web stack will be more beneficial for the life sciences? Is biomedical information too complex to benefit from simple interlinked representations? What are the implications of adopting a new paradigm for knowledge representation? What are the incentives for the adoption of the Semantic Web, and who are the facilitators? Is there going to be a Semantic Web revolution in the life sciences? We report here a few reflections on these questions, following discussions at the SWAT4LS (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences) workshop series, of which this Journal of Biomedical Semantics special issue presents selected papers from the 2009 edition, held in Amsterdam on November 20(th). |
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spelling | pubmed-31054932011-06-02 Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web Splendiani, Andrea Burger, Albert Paschke, Adrian Romano, Paolo Marshall, M Scott J Biomed Semantics Research 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 address problems in data-intensive areas such as systems biology and translational medicine. As for any new paradigm, the adoption of the Semantic Web offers opportunities and poses questions and challenges to the life sciences scientific community: which technologies in the Semantic Web stack will be more beneficial for the life sciences? Is biomedical information too complex to benefit from simple interlinked representations? What are the implications of adopting a new paradigm for knowledge representation? What are the incentives for the adoption of the Semantic Web, and who are the facilitators? Is there going to be a Semantic Web revolution in the life sciences? We report here a few reflections on these questions, following discussions at the SWAT4LS (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences) workshop series, of which this Journal of Biomedical Semantics special issue presents selected papers from the 2009 edition, held in Amsterdam on November 20(th). BioMed Central 2011-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3105493/ /pubmed/21388570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S1 Text en Copyright ©2011 Splendiani et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Splendiani, Andrea Burger, Albert Paschke, Adrian Romano, Paolo Marshall, M Scott Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title | Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title_full | Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title_fullStr | Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title_full_unstemmed | Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title_short | Biomedical semantics in the Semantic Web |
title_sort | biomedical semantics in the semantic web |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21388570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S1 |
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