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SW Application Examples (cont)
- IBM – Life Sciences and Semantic Web
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- 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
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Open Medical Ontologies
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- an umbrella web site for ontologies in the biological and medical domains
- e.g., Gene Ontology (also available in OWL)
Some Application Examples