Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
January 2006
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Christine Froidevaux, and Emmanuel Pietriga, "Selecting Biological Data Sources and Tools with XPR, a Path Language for RDF", . January 2006.
Abstract
As the number, richness and diversity of biological sources grow, scientists are increasingly confronted with the problem of selecting appropriate sources and tools. To address this problem, we have designed BioGuide, a user-centric framework that helps scientists choose sources and tools according to their preferences and strategy, by specifying queries through a user-friendly visual interface. In this paper, we provide a complete RDF representation of BioGuide and introduce XPR (eXtensible Path language for RDF), an extension of FSL that is expressive enough to model all BioGuide queries. BioGuide queries modeled as XPR expressions can then be saved, compared, evaluated and exchanged through the Web between users and applications.
Keywords
query language, RDF, bioinformatics
Date Posted: 23 February 2007
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 11:116-127(2006)