Publication: On the formulation of performant SPARQL queries

On November 15, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: On the formulation of performant SPARQL queries

The combination of the flexibility of RDF and the expressiveness of SPARQL provides a powerful mechanism to model, integrate and query data. However, these properties also mean that it is nontrivial to write performant SPARQL queries. Indeed, it is quite easy to create queries that tax even the most optimised…

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Publication: Querying neXtProt nanopublications and their value for insights on sequence variants and tissue expression

On June 12, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Querying neXtProt nanopublications and their value for insights on sequence variants and tissue expression

Understanding how genetic differences between individuals impact the regulation, expression, and ultimately function of proteins is an important step toward realizing the promise of personal medicine. There are several technical barriers hindering the transition of biological knowledge into the applications relevant to precision medicine. One important challenge for data integration…

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