How to boost your research with SIB’s Semantic Web of data

Answering complex biological questions often involves separately querying several biodata resources, and combining the resulting data. In this talk, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Knowledge Representation Manager, introduces SIB’s Semantic Web of data. This framework, recently published by the dedicated SIB-wide focus group, enables users to retrieve knowledge from across 11 SIB databases, whose data are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), as well as external databases. If you are a biologist or a bioinformatician who needs to answer a biological or a clinical question using diverse resources, then this talk is for you!

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Speaker

Name:

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias

Institute:

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Group:

Vital-IT

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias is the co-lead of the Knowledge Representation Unit at SIB. He is an AI-researcher with expertise in Semantic Web technologies. His Unit provides R&D services and develops tools to support life science research in academia and industry. Currently, his main research interests are Semantic Web applied to biological and biomedical data, ontology engineering, natural language processing, large language models, data integration and semantic interoperability among biological data sources.

Video

Duration:

6 minutes 35 seconds

License:

This video is available under the creative commons license CC-BY-4.0

Reference(s)

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics RDF Group Members, The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Semantic Web of data, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 52, Issue D1, 5 January 2024, p. D44–D51.

DOI:

10.1093/nar/gkad902