Background Biomedical translational science is increasingly using computational reasoning
on repositories of structured knowledge (such as UMLS, SemMedDB, ChEMBL, Reactome …

Background Several online databases provide a large amount of biomedical data of different
biological entities. These resources are typically stored in systems implementing their own …

With the availability of reliable and low-cost DNA sequencing, human genomics is relevant
to a growing number of end-users, including biologists and clinicians. Typical interactions …

The proliferation of biological research data generated and shared openly online is of huge
benefit to the scientific community, but there are often significant challenges to overcome …

Background High throughput technologies have provided the scientific community an
unprecedented opportunity for large-scale analysis of genomes. Non-coding RNAs …

Chatbots technology allows to easily add a conversational interface to a large set of
applications. In this paper, we show a conversational agent based on ALICE framework …

The era of “big data” arose the need to have computational tools in support of biological
tasks. Many types of bioinformatics tools have been developed for different biological tasks …

NoSQL databases have recently been introduced as alternatives to traditional relational
database management systems because of their capabilities in terms of storing data and …

Genome analysis is a major precondition for future advances in the life sciences. The
complex organization of genome data and the interactions between genomic components …

Terpenoids are involved in interactions such as signalling for communication intra/inter
species, signalling molecules to attract pollinating insects, and defence against herbivores …