Samuel's Tech Blog

Reading the paper on the Bio2RDF database.

It contains something that I need, an overview of different techniques, databases and formats that are common in the semantic web community, but of which I know to few still.

Some useful abbreviations just learned (some I knew somewhat, but was not sure):

Formats / Languages

• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• OWL - Web Ontology Language
• LSID - Life Sciences ID
• Dublin core

Databases

• Bio2RDF
• KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• Reactome
• UniProt

Tools / Softwares

• Sesame - Open source triplestore
• Elmo - Open source RDF Crawler
• Protége (OWL Editor)
• Piggy Bank - Semantic web Firefox browser plugin
• ...