This book introduces advanced semantic web technologies, illustrating their utility and highlighting their implementation in biological, medical, and clinical scenarios. It covers topics ranging from database, ontology, and visualization to semantic web services and workflows. The volume also details the factors impacting on the establishment of the semantic web in life science and the legal challenges that will impact on its proliferation.

This book introduces advanced semantic web technologies, illustrating their utility and highlighting their implementation in biological, medical, and clinical scenarios. It covers topics ranging from database, ontology, and visualization to semantic web services and workflows. The volume also details the factors impacting on the establishment of the semantic web in life science and the legal challenges that will impact on its proliferation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2013, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2013. The 10 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers cover a range of important topics such as algorithms for ontology matching, interoperable frameworks for text mining using semantic web services, pipelines for genome-wide functional annotation, automation of pipelines providing data discovery and access to distributed resources, knowledge-driven querying-answer systems, prizms, nanopublications, electronic health records and linked data.