Samuel's Project Blog

Reading up on Life Science databases et.c... which continues to generate "abbreviations" that are useful to know well.

Databases

• DBPedia - RDF version of Wikipedia
• LODD - Linking Open Drug Data (contains an overview of the included databases)
• PubChem

Formats et.c.

• InChI - IUPAC International Chemical Identifier

Reading the paper on the Bio2RDF database.

It contains something that I need, an overview of different techniques, databases and formats that are common in the semantic web community, but of which I know to few still.

Some useful abbreviations just learned (some I knew somewhat, but was not sure):

Formats / Languages

• RDF - Resource Description Framework
• OWL - Web Ontology Language
• LSID - Life Sciences ID
• Dublin core

Databases

• Bio2RDF
• KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes