Data Integration in the Life Sciences : 9th International Conference, DILS 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 11-12, 2013. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2013, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2013. The 10 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers cover a range of important topics such as algorithms for ontology matching, interoperable frameworks for text mining using semantic web services, pipelines for genome-wide functional annotation, automation of pipelines providing data discovery and access to distributed resources, knowledge-driven querying-answer systems, prizms, nanopublications, electronic health records and linked data. Front Matter....Pages - Changing the Model in Pharma and Healthcare – Can We Afford to Wait Any Longer?....Pages 1-22 Ibidas: Querying Flexible Data Structures to Explore Heterogeneous Bioinformatics Data....Pages 23-37 From Questions to Effective Answers: On the Utility of Knowledge-Driven Querying Systems for Life Sciences Data....Pages 38-45 OmixAnalyzer – A Web-Based System for Management and Analysis of High-Throughput Omics Data Sets....Pages 46-53 The RDF Pipeline Framework: Automating Distributed, Dependency-Driven Data Pipelines....Pages 54-68 Towards Interoperable BioNLP Semantic Web Services Using the SADI Framework....Pages 69-80 Optimizing Similarity Computations for Ontology Matching - Experiences from GOMMA....Pages 81-89 Semi-automatic Adaptation of Mappings between Life Science Ontologies....Pages 90-104 Next Generation Cancer Data Discovery, Access, and Integration Using Prizms and Nanopublications....Pages 105-112 Putting It All Together: The Design of a Pipeline for Genome-Wide Functional Annotation of Fungi in the Modern Era of “-Omics” Data and Systems Biology....Pages 113-127 Mining Anti-coagulant Drug-Drug Interactions from Electronic Health Records Using Linked Data....Pages 128-140 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2014, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2014. The papers cover a range of important topics such as data integration platforms and applications;