Towards Knowledge Federation for Biomedical Applications

Towards Knowledge Federation for Biomedical Applications Pedro Lopes & José Luís Oliveira DOI: 10.1145/2063518.2063530 I-Semantics 2011, 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems; September 2011 – Graz, Austria Open publication – Free publishing – More semantic Abstract: Knowledge federation is a particular matter of concern in the life sciences domain. The magnitude of data generated by biomedical software and hardware since the initial discovery of the human genome is tremendous in quantity and diversity. Consequently, state-of-the-art software solutions have always lagged behind researchers’ demands, even more so with recent developments in high-throughput sequencing technology and open access to digital disease records. The maturity of Semantic Web technologies brought with it new strategies to tackle life sciences challenges….

WAVe database model

First stable version of the database model is complete. Upcoming issues: how to crawl the databases to get the variants where is GEN2PHEN lsdb listing how to get variation metadata like publications and so on, will a specific parser for each database be required? develop the final app in C# or Java? C# would be faster… Java stripes?

WAVe 1 – 0 Coeus

WAVe has beaten Coeus in a closed match yesterday afternoon… A top-2-bottom perspective should be followed and development in WAVe should kick off ASAP There is no information available on how will coeus and its semantic web developments recover from such a defeat…

HTTP Secure Connection with WSO2 WSAS

At the UA.PT Bioinformatics research group we were required to implement a secure web services provider for the eu-ADR project. For the service provider module we picked the WSO2 WSAS framework, which implements various methods of security, including WS-Security over HTTPS (what we wanted in the beginning). Being inside a public institution, we need to request a certificate to our university computational centre. After the creation of the certificate request and our keystore we sent the details to them and they dealt with VeriSign to provide us our certificate. And this is were the problems started… VeriSign only provided us a .PEM file containing our private key and another two files (the root key and…

reCAPTCHA with PHP

I’ve seen in many sites the reCAPTCHA plugin and I’ve particular focus to it specially since Google acquired the company. Today I’ve tested the system in my personal site… I was getting quite a few spam messages! The system is very simple to use and the code is pretty straightforward. I have everything on PHP so it was quite easy add the reCAPTCHA library and methods the existing contact form. Here’s the tutorial: Register for a key at reCAPTCHA Download the PHP library Put the following code in the form where you want the CAPTCHA to appear <?php require_once(‘recaptchalib.php’); $publickey = “<your public key>”; echo recaptcha_get_html($publickey); ?> Add the following code to the form validation…