Currently, much effort is spent on creating a new computational and data infrastructure to facilitate eScience, the cooperation of geographically distributed organisations, which transparently integrate their computational and data resources at a structural and semantic level. Progress has been made with standards for grid computing and semantic representations for life science data with many projects creating a host of grid-enabled services for the life sciences.
The Web started with a browser and a handful of Web pages. The vision of eScience with an underlying Grid and Semantic Web will only take off with the development of a Semantic Grid browser. The SEALIFE project is filling this gap by developing such a semantic grid browser. These browsers will operate on top of the existing Web, but they introduce an additional semantic level, thus implementing a Semantic Web. Using ontologies as background knowledge, the browsers can automatically identify entities such as protein and gene names, molecular processes, diseases, types of tissue, etc. and the relationships between them, in any Web document. They collect these entities and then apply further analyses to them using applicable Web and Grid services. The SEALIFE browser will be evaluated in three applications relating to the study of infectious diseases.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/sealife
Project co-ordinator:
TU Dresden
Partners:
- TU Dresden, (DE)
- Hariot-Watt University, Edinburgh, (UK)
- City University, London, (UK)
- University of Manchester, (UK)
- Scionics GmbH, Dresden, (DE)
- Inria, Sophia-Antipolis, (FR)
Timetable: from 4/2006 to 3/2009
Total cost: 2.6M
EC funding: 2.2M
Instrument: STREP
Project Identifier: IST-2004-027269