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DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Techniques to Explore and Rank Paths in Life Science Data Sources
Abstract. Life science data sources represent a complex link-driven federation of publicly available Web accessible sources. A fundamental need for scientists today is the ability ...
Zoé Lacroix, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther V...
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific Workflows
Abstract. Ecologists spend considerable effort integrating heterogeneous data for statistical analyses and simulations, for example, to run and test predictive models. Our research...
Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Application of Formal Principles to Life Science Data: a Case Study in the Gene Ontology
Formal principles governing best practices in classification and definition have for too long been neglected in the construction of biomedical ontologies, in ways which have import...
Barry Smith, Jacob Köhler, Anand Kumar
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Universal Character Model and Ontology of Defined Terms for Taxonomic Description
Taxonomists classify biological specimens into groups (taxa) on the basis of similarities between their observed features ('characters'). The description of these 'c...
Trevor Paterson, Jessie B. Kennedy, Martin R. Pull...
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Links and Paths through Life Sciences Data Sources
An abundance of biological data sources contain data on classes of scientific entities, such as genes and sequences. Logical relationships between scientific objects are implemen...
Zoé Lacroix, Hyma Murthy, Felix Naumann, Lo...
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
PROVA: Rule-Based Java-Scripting for a Bioinformatics Semantic Web
Abstract. Transparent information integration across distributed and heterogeneous data sources and computational tools is a prime concern for bioinformatics. Recently, there have ...
Alexander Kozlenkov, Michael Schroeder
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Domain-Specific Concepts and Ontological Reduction within a Data Dictionary Framework
This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts in the medical domain. As an application of this method we developed a data dictionary whi...
Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre, Kristin Lippoldt
DILS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Heterogeneous Data Integration with the Consensus Clustering Formalism
Meaningfully integrating massive multi-experimental genomic data sets is becoming critical for the understanding of gene function. We have recently proposed methodologies for integ...
Vladimir Filkov, Steven Skiena