Semantic Web

1. Introduction

Part I. Database and Literature Integration

2. Semantic Web Approach to Database Integration in the Life Sciences
Kei-Hoi Cheung, Andrew K. Smith, Kevin Y. L. Yip, Christopher J. O. Baker, Mark B. Gerstein

3. Querying Semantic Web Contents
Loïc Royer, Benedikt Linse, Thomas Wächter, Tim Furch, François Bry, Michael Schroeder

4. Knowledge Acquisition from the Biomedical Literature
Lynette Hirschman, William S. Hayes, Alfonso Valencia

Part II. Ontologies in the Life Sciences

5. Biological Ontologies
Patrick Lambrix, He Tan, Vaida Jakoniene, Lena Strömbäck

6. Clinical Ontologies for Discovery Applications
Yves A. Lussier, Olivier Bodenreider

7. Ontology Engineering for Biological Applications
Larisa N. Soldatova, Ross D. King

8. The Evaluation of Ontologies
Leo Obrst, Werner Ceusters, Inderjeet Mani, Steve Ray, Barry Smith

9. OWL for the Novice: A Logical Perspective
Jeff Z. Pan

Part III. Ontology Visualization

10. Techniques for Ontology Visualization
Xiaoshu Wang, Jonas S. Almeida

11. On Visualization of OWL Ontologies
Serguei Krivov, Ferdinando Villa, Richard Williams, Xindong Wu

Part IV. Ontologies in Action

12. Applying OWL Reasoning to Genomic Data
Katy Wolstencroft, Robert Stevens, Volker Haarslev

13. Can Semantic Web Technologies Enable Translational Medicine?
Vipul Kashyap, Tonya Hongsermeier

14. Ontology Design for Biomedical Text Mining
René Witte, Thomas Kappler, Christopher J. O. Baker

Part V. Using Distributed Knowledge

15. Sembowser - Semantic Biological Web Services Registry
Satya S. Sahoo, Amit Sheth, Blake Hunter, William S. York

16. Agent Technologies in the Life Sciences
Albert Burger

17. Knowledge Discovery for Biology with Taverna
Carole Goble, Katy Wolstencroft, Antoon Goderis, Duncan Hull, Jun Zhao, Pinar Alper, Phillip Lord, Chris Wroe, Khalid Belhajjame, Daniele Turi, Robert Stevens, Tom Oinn, David Roure

Part VI. On the Success of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences

18. Factors Influencing the Adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences
Toni Kazic

19. Semantic Web Standards: Legal and Social Issues and Implications
Dov Greenbaum, Mark Gerstein

Keywords: Life Sciences, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Health Informatics, Philosophy of Biology