Notes & thoughts from the IU semantics workshop

Over the last two days I attended a workshop titled Exploiting Big Data Semantics for Translational Medicine, held at Indiana University, organized by David Wild, Ying Ding, Katy Borner and Eric Gifford. The stated goals were to explore advances in translation medicine via data and semantic technologies, with a view towards possible fundable ideas and […]

ChEMBL in RDF and Other Musings

Earlier today, Egon announced the release of an RDF version of ChEMBL, hosted at Uppsala. A nice feature of this setup is that one can play around with the data via SPARQL queries as well as explore the classes and properties that the Uppsala folks have implemented. Having fiddled with SPARQL on and off, it […]