The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon: improving life science data integration with Semantic Web technologies

BackgroundBioHackathon 2010 was the third in a series of meetings hosted by the Database Center for Life Sciences (DBCLS) in Tokyo, Japan. The overall goal of the BioHackathon series is to improve the quality and accessibility of life science research data on the Web by bringing together representatives from public databases, analytical tool providers, and cyber-infrastructure researchers to jointly tackle important challenges in the area of in silico biological research.ResultsThe theme of BioHackathon 2010 was the 'Semantic Web', and all attendees gathered with the shared goal of producing Semantic Web data from their respective resources, and/or consuming or interacting those data using their tools and interfaces. We discussed on topics including guidelines for designing semantic data and interoperability of resources. We consequently developed tools and clients for analysis and visualization.ConclusionWe provide a meeting report from BioHackathon 2010, in which we describe the discussions, decisions, and breakthroughs made as we moved towards compliance with Semantic Web technologies - from source provider, through middleware, to the end-consumer.

Fumikazu Konishi | Hammad Afzal | Gos Micklem | Yu Lin | Kiyoshi Asai | Andrea Splendiani | Hideaki Sugawara | Anna-Lena Lamprecht | Chisato Yamasaki | Yasunori Yamamoto | Atsuko Yamaguchi | Toshihisa Takagi | Matthias Samwald | Rutger A Vos | Mark D. Wilkinson | Pjotr Prins | Keiichiro Ono | Eli Kaminuma | Kazuhiro Hayashi | Shuichi Kawashima | Kunihiro Nishimura | Hong-Woo Chun | Pierre Lindenbaum | Kozo Nishida | Toshiaki Katayama | Hideya Kawaji | Kazuharu Arakawa | Alberto Labarga | Jan Aerts | Taro L. Saito | Erick Antezana | Jerven T. Bolleman | Young Joo Kim | Heiko Horn | Soichi Ogishima | Brad Chapman | Shinobu Okamoto | Bruno Aranda | James Taylor | Mark D Wilkinson | Richard Smith | Mitsuteru Nakao | Tatsuya Nishizawa | Jerven Bolleman | Tore Eriksson | Yasumasa Shigemoto | Naohisa Goto | Shoko Kawamoto | Akira R Kinjo | Kenta Oouchida | Kyung-Hoon Kwon | Paul MK Gordon | Luke McCarthy | Arek Kasprzyk | Keun-Joon Park | Nobuhiro Kido | Venkata P Satagopam | Ryosuke Ishiwata | Young Joo Kim | Katsuhiko Murakami | Koji Nagao | Kazuki Oshita | Francois Belleau | Raoul JP Bonnal | Peter JA Cock | Hideyuki Morita | Taro L Saito | David Withers | Christian M Zmasek | Kosaku Okubo | J. Aerts | Kunihiro Nishimura | Yasunori Yamamoto | T. Takagi | H. Sugawara | A. Splendiani | K. Ono | K. Murakami | K. Asai | H. Horn | A. Kasprzyk | H. Kawaji | R. Vos | A. Labarga | V. Satagopam | Bruno Aranda | M. Samwald | A. Kinjo | G. Micklem | Toshiaki Katayama | S. Kawashima | K. Arakawa | Nobuhiro Kido | Kazuki Oshita | P. Gordon | C. Zmasek | P. Prins | P. Cock | Naohisa Goto | K. Okubo | E. Kaminuma | M. Nakao | Chisato Yamasaki | Kozo Nishida | S. Ogishima | H. Chun | R. Ishiwata | S. Okamoto | Keun-Joon Park | Atsuko Yamaguchi | K. Nagao | R. Bonnal | Tatsuya Nishizawa | K. Kwon | H. Afzal | Anna-Lena Lamprecht | P. Lindenbaum | Fumikazu Konishi | Erick Antezana | Yasumasa Shigemoto | S. Kawamoto | Brad A. Chapman | K. Hayashi | K. Oouchida | F. Belleau | T. Eriksson | Luke McCarthy | H. Morita | Richard S. Smith | James Taylor | D. Withers | Yu Lin | Mitsuteru Nakao

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