Bio-IT World.com Some sites are addressing this problem (and not just for the sake of mashups) by enhancing the way data is accessed. For example, many sites are moving from traditional command line interfaces and onscreen queries to exposing a site’s data to applications via a Web services interface. Another approach that would greatly expand [...]

Bio-IT World.com Semantic Web technology has the potential to greatly improve the way researchers find, access, share, and use data. But like any new technology, there is a learning curve that must be overcome before the technology is widely adopted. An online poll of Bio-IT World readers found that many life scientists do not know [...]

Extreme Nano “All the Web can do is find a document for you and display it for you,” said Wilbanks. “The semantic web marks things up in a more concrete manner; it says that there are relationships.” For example, a scientist could search for peer-reviewed articles about a particular gene, data related to that gene, [...]

Bio-IT World.com The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the formation of a new group that seeks to bring life scientists and Semantic Web experts together to help improve the way data is accessed, shared, and analyzed. Specifically, the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) aims to help life scientists [...]