Via the Semantic web life sciences list: A Nature Biotechnology Perspective disucssing the importance of Semantic Web Technologies and their impact on 'omic standards, is available online (I was able to access this from home ? But a subscription may be required, which is really starting to annoy me). I just don't understand how anyone is supposed to discuss science online if all the information is locked up in walled gardens ?
Anyway the article is good, it is long, but worth the read if you care about how you spend your time doing bioinformatics or if you want to see what the future has in store for biological standards development. So now that you've taken the trouble to read the article and attempted to digest the significance of it, you're probablly thinking "So what ?" it has no real practical benefite for me now ?
It is true that articles like this do not explain these technologies from the point of view of the "working bioinformatician" i.e. what is in it for me if I bother to investigate RDF now ? Read on for some working examples of RDF data integration and a few thoughts on the future of the semantic web and the life sciences (warning, this is an article not a post, so grab a beverage or something).
