Advanced Semantic Knowledge-Based Bio-Medical Search Solution

[Ruslan David]

A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and
automatically find additional resources and services has been
developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation
of intelligent search engines. The life sciences community has built
numerous databases - such as for gene sequencing and information about
diseases - that are available to researchers as 'grid' services.

"Grid computing is essentially about building virtual organisations
that are independent of the physical location where they reside," says
Michael Schroeder of Technische Universität Dresden.

The problem is how to link those services to other scientific
information found on the web. Schroeder is coordinator of the
EU-funded Sealife project which has created a 'semantic grid browser'
to make grid services for the life sciences much more accessible.

"We have the web on the one hand and then we have grid computing, with
its many services, on the other," he says. "A semantic grid browser
seamlessly integrates them.

"It tries to understand what it finds on web pages, interprets this
content and then links it, on the fly, to services that might be
useful to the user."

The key to the Sealife browser is a 'semantic hyperlink' that shows up
on the page to direct users to relevant services. The link is not put
there by the website but by the browser itself.

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