Development of Integrative Bioinformatics Applications using Cloud Computing resources and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS).

Use of semantic web abstractions, in particular of domain neural Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), to manage distributed, cloud based, integrative bioinformatics infrastructure. This presentation derives from recent publication:Almeida JS, Deus HF, Maass W. (2010) S3DB core: a framework for RDF generation and management in bioinformatics infrastructures. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Jul 20;11(1):387. [PMID 20646315].These PowerPoint slides were presented at Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences December 10th, 2010, Berlin, Germany (http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/progr.php), keynote 9-10 am.