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. 2014 May 1;30(9):1338-9.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt765. Epub 2014 Jan 11.

The EBI RDF platform: linked open data for the life sciences

Simon Jupp  1 , James Malone, Jerven Bolleman, Marco Brandizi, Mark Davies, Leyla Garcia, Anna Gaulton, Sebastien Gehant, Camille Laibe, Nicole Redaschi, Sarala M Wimalaratne, Maria Martin, Nicolas Le Novère, Helen Parkinson, Ewan Birney, Andrew M Jenkinson
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The EBI RDF platform: linked open data for the life sciences

Simon Jupp et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Resource description framework (RDF) is an emerging technology for describing, publishing and linking life science data. As a major provider of bioinformatics data and services, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is committed to making data readily accessible to the community in ways that meet existing demand. The EBI RDF platform has been developed to meet an increasing demand to coordinate RDF activities across the institute and provides a new entry point to querying and exploring integrated resources available at the EBI.

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Fig. 1.
Connections between services (boxes) and ontologies (circles). The graph illustrates how the data are linked within the RDF platform, enabling queries to span all data. Asterisk: ENSEMBL to UniProt (gray line) mappings are included via expression atlas
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