S3QL: A distributed domain specific language for controlled semantic integration of life sciences data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Deus, Helena F ^a,b   Correa, Miriã C ^c   Stanislaus, Romesh ^d   Miragaia, Maria ^b   Maass, Wolfgang ^e   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^b,f   Fox, Ronan ^a   Almeida, Jonas S ^g  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c Laboratório Nacional de Computação Ciêntifica   (Portugal)

^d SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

^e FURTWANGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

BLinked Data; knowledge organization system; KOS; Policy; RDF; S3D; SPARQL

Indexed keywords

BLINKED DATA; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS; KOS; RDF; S3D; SPARQL;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA HANDLING; DISEASES; GENES; PUBLIC POLICY; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTIC WEB;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEMANTICS;

BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960563809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-285     Document Type: Article

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