The Semantic Web of Life Science

Posted on April 25, 2009 by peanutbutter

This summary was born out of a question  on Twitter and percolated to FriendFeed, which was “Who is using RDF and integrating other resources at the minute and what are those resources? From this question, several resources were highlighted.
UniProt. The comprehensive resource of protein information is available as an RDF distribution and each Protein record [...]

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The Triumvirate of Scientific Data

Posted on October 30, 2008 by peanutbutter

In a recent Nature editorial entitled Standardizing data,  several projects were highlighted that are forfeiting there chances of winning a Nobel prize (according to Quackenbush) and championing the blue collar science of data standardization.in the life-sciences.
I wanted to take the article a step further highlight three significant properties of scientific data that I believe to [...]

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