Semantic Web for chemistry is approaching
The initiative, coined 'Project Prospect', is the first of its scope from a primary research publisher. Developed together with UK academics based at the Unilever Centre of Molecular Informatics and the Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University, the Project uses InChIs (IUPAC's International Chemical Identifier for compounds); OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO); terms from the IUPAC Gold Book; and CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form). Source: Richard Kidd (rsc.org)How it works:
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ProjectProspect/Examples.asp
Try by yourself:
OSCAR3 (Open Source Chemistry Analysis Routines) (JAVA, open access) is a tool for the semantic annotation of chemistry papers. It can detect structures from text, link them to PubChem, can display InChi and SMILES codes, can detect important words (semantic) and can classify or detect categories (ontology) and much more. It was developed by Peter Corbett from the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics.
It works pretty well and is and was used by RSC.org (Oscar) and Nature.com (Nessy).
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Last modified 2009-02-26 01:10 AM
Last modified 2009-02-26 01:10 AM