New Ways to Measure Science

Nice short article on new ways of measuring scientific merit (e.g. data curation) at Wired.

Special Issue on Linked Data for Health Care and the Life Sciences

I’m one of the guest editors (With Michel Dumontier and Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis) of the Semantic Web Journal‘s Special Issue on Linked Data for Health Care and the Life Sciences. Please, submit your best paper!

Galaxy tool for NCBO web services

We have developed a collection of Galaxy tools for executing NCBO web services as part of Galaxy (Available at the tool shed, in ontology manipulation). Available services:

• Get ontology.
• View.
• Search.
• Extract.
• Annotator.
• Recomendador.
• Resource index.

Taverna + Galaxy

Taverna workflows can now be executed as Galaxy workflows. Plus, Galaxy is a nice tool for teaching bioinformatics. It seems that Galaxy is gaining momentum!

Paper accepted at SWAT4LS

Our paper entitled “OPPL-Galaxy: Enhancing ontology exploitation in Galaxy with OPPL” has been accepted at SWAT4LS (First talk!). I will also help Simon with the Populous-OPPL tutorial.

Ontology Pre Processor Language for Galaxy

I have just released the first version of OPPL Galaxy, a wrapper of OPPL for the Galaxy platform. OPPL is an scripting language for manipulating ontologies; Galaxy is a platform for executing Bioinformatics workflows. Since ontologies are an important part of data analysis in Bioinformatics, it made sense to adapt OPPL to Galaxy. Plus it was really easy

You can find it in the Galaxy Tool Shed, under Ontology Manipulation.

OPPL Galaxy is built on top of OPPL API, OWL API and Pellet. Thanks to all of them!

US environmental data as Linked Data

US Environmental Protection Agency Prepares Facilities Data for the Linked Data Cloud.

Terp syntax

Terp, part of pellet, can be used to perform SPARQL-like queries against OWL ontologies using the right OWL syntax (Not based in triples). Nice.

Semantic Web Layer Cake 3D

http://bnode.org/blog/2009/07/08/the-semantic-web-not-a-piece-of-cake

Bilbao Web Summit

17-18 May: http://www.bilbaowebsummit.com