Research in the area of technology‐enhanced learning (TEL) throughout the last decade
has largely focused on sharing and reusing educational resources and data. This effort has …

Integrative Biology (IB) uses experimental or computational quantitative technologies to
characterize biological systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue and population levels. IB …

In order to leverage the full potential of the Semantic Web it is necessary to transparently
query distributed RDF data sources in the same way as it has been possible with federated …

There is an abundance of information about drugs available on the Web. Data sources
range from medicinal chemistry results, over the impact of drugs on gene expression, to the …

Background Recently there has been an explosion of new data sources about genes,
proteins, genetic variations, chemical compounds, diseases and drugs. Integration of these …

Data from the electronic medical record comprise numerous structured but uncoded ele-
ments, which are not linked to standard terminologies. Reuse of such data for secondary …

Many groups within the broad field of nanoinformatics are already developing data
repositories and analytical tools driven by their individual organizational goals. Integrating …

Background Biomedical data, eg from knowledge bases and ontologies, is increasingly
made available following open linked data principles, at best as RDF triple data. This is a …

Semantic web technologies offer an approach to data integration and sharing, even for
resources developed independently or broadly distributed across the web. This approach is …

Data federation addresses the problem of uniformly accessing multiple, possibly
heterogeneous data sources, by mapping them into a unified schema, such as an RDF …