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Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration

Jonathan A Sagotsky, Le Zhang, Zhihui Wang, Sean Martin & Thomas S Deisboeck

doi:10.1038/msb.2008.39

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Table 1: A table of commonly used bioinformatics data standards

Examples of Web 2.0 applications data standards and semantic web projects
Web 2.0
 OpenWetWare (http://openwetware.org)A wiki for the synthetic biology and biological engineering community
 YeastPheromoneModel.org (http://yeastpheromonemodel.org/wiki/Main_Page)A wiki used as a modeling resource for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating pathway
 UsefulChem (http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com)An example of OpenNotebook science
 Nature Network (http://network.nature.com)A web 2.0 platform facilitating scientific networking
 SciVee (http://scivee.tv)A site for sharing science videos
  
Standards
 BioPax (http://biopax.org)Open source data exchange ontology and format for biological pathways
 CellML (http://www.cellml.org/)XML-based open standard for storing and exchanging computer-based mathematical models; utilizes MathML and RDF
 FuGE (http://fuge.sf.net)XML-based model for shared components in different functional genomics domains
 LSID (http://lsids.sf.net)Life Science Identifier is a unique and persistent ID for naming documents and objects
 Mage-ML (http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MAGE/mage.html)Language based on XML for representing gene expression
 mzXML (http://tools.proteomecenter.org/mzXMLschema.php)Mass spectrometry representation based on XML
 SBML (http://sbml.org)Machine-readable format for representing quantitative models
  
Semantic Web
 YeastHub (http://yeasthub.gersteinlab.org)Integration of diverse types of biological data stored in a variety of formats
 CViT (http://www.cvit.org)Computational and mathematical cancer modeling community; includes a semantic RDF-based repository
 WikiProfessional (http://www.wikiprofessional.org)Web-based environment that combines wiki functionalities with semantic navigation capabilities
 Freebase (http://www.freebase.com)Free online database for structured information
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