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SW Application Examples (cont)

IBM – Life Sciences and Semantic Web
  • IBM Internet Technology Group
    • focusing on general infrastructure for Semantic Web applications
  • develop user-centered tools
    • power of Semantic Web technologies, but hide the underlying complexity
  • integrated tool kit (storage, query, editing, annotation, visualization)
  • common representation (RDF), unique ID-s (LSID), collaboration, …
  • focus on Life Sciences (for now)
    • but a potential for transforming the scientific research process
Open Medical Ontologies
  • an umbrella web site for ontologies in the biological and medical domains
  • e.g., Gene Ontology (also available in OWL)

Some Application Examples