GlycoRDF: an ontology to standardize glycomics data in RDF

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¹ Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
² Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 25388145
PMCID: PMC4380026
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu732

GlycoRDF: an ontology to standardize glycomics data in RDF

Rene Ranzinger et al. Bioinformatics. 2015.

. 2015 Mar 15;31(6):919-25.

doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu732. Epub 2014 Nov 11.

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¹ Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
² Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Research Center for Medical Glycoscience, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Chiba, Japan, Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Laboratory of Glyco-organic Chemistry, The Noguchi Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 25388145
PMCID: PMC4380026
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu732

Abstract

Motivation: Over the last decades several glycomics-based bioinformatics resources and databases have been created and released to the public. Unfortunately, there is no common standard in the representation of the stored information or a common machine-readable interface allowing bioinformatics groups to easily extract and cross-reference the stored information.

Results: An international group of bioinformatics experts in the field of glycomics have worked together to create a standard Resource Description Framework (RDF) representation for glycomics data, focused on glycan sequences and related biological source, publications and experimental data. This RDF standard is defined by the GlycoRDF ontology and will be used by database providers to generate common machine-readable exports of the data stored in their databases.

Availability and implementation: The ontology, supporting documentation and source code used by database providers to generate standardized RDF are available online (http://www.glycoinfo.org/GlycoRDF/).

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**Fig. 1.**
UML diagram of the core classes in the GlycoRDF ontology. The five central classes (grey boxes) are shown together with their major subclasses (white boxes) and the predicates connecting those (arrows with arrowhead pointing towards the object of a RDF triple)

**Fig. 2.**
RDF example for the encoding of (A) a glycan and its LINUCS representation, (B) the monosaccharide composition of the glycan, and (C) usage of a *ReferencedCompound* to link the glycan with a publication

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