The myGrid ontology: bioinformatics service discovery. (5th September 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wolstencroft, K.; Alper, P.; Hull, D.; Wroe, C.; Lord, P.W.; Stevens, R.D.; Goble, C.A
• Is Part Of: International journal of bioinformatics research and applications. Volume 3:Number 3(2007)
• Page Start: 303
• Page End: 325
• Publication Date: 2007-09-05
• Subjects: service discovery -- annotation -- OWL -- description logic -- RDFS -- in silico life cycle -- myGrid ontology -- bioinformatics -- workflow design -- data management -- metadata management -- semantics; Bioinformatics -- Periodicals; 570.285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-5485

Abstract

My Grid supports in silico experiments in the life sciences, enabling the design and enactment of workflows as well as providing components to assist service discovery, data and metadata management. The my Grid ontology is one component in a larger semantic discovery framework for the identification of the highly distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatics services in the public domain. From an initial model of formal OWL-DL semantics throughout, we now adopt a spectrum of expressivity and reasoning for different tasks in service annotation and discovery. Here, we discuss the development and use of the my Grid ontology and our experiences in semantic service discovery.