By: Sascha Losko1
, Klaus Heumann1
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The vast quantities of information generated by academic and industrial research groups are reflected in a rapidly growing
body of scientific literature and exponentially expanding resources of formalized data including experimental data from “-omics”
platforms, phenotype information, and clinical data. For bioinformatics, several challenges remain: to structure this information
as biological networks enabling scientists to identify relevant information; to integrate this information as specific “knowledge
bases”; and to formalize this knowledge across multiple scientific domains to facilitate hypothesis generation and validation
and, thus, the generation of new knowledge. Risk management in drug discovery and clinical research is used as a typical example
to illustrate this approach. In this chapter we will introduce techniques and concepts (such as ontologies, semantic objects,
typed relationships, contexts, graphs, and information layers) that are used to represent complex biomedical networks. The
BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment is used as an example to demonstrate how a domain such as oncology is represented
and how this representation is utilized for research.
Book Title: Protein Networks and Pathway Analysis
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 563 | Pub. Date: Jul-01-2009 | Page Range: 241-258 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-175-2_13
Subject: Protein Science
Key Words: Knowledge management - bioinformatics - biomarkers - biological networks - semantic technologies - data integration - ontologies - oncology
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