From XML to RDF: How semantic web technologies will change the design of 'omic' standards

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1099-1103

  Wang, Xiaoshu ^a   Gorlitsky, Robert ^a   Almeida, Jonas S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; STANDARDS; SYNTACTICS; XML;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA STANDARDS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOCUMENTATION; GENOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATABASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENOMICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEOMICS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 27144497798     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1139     Document Type: Review

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