Building conceptual spaces for exploring and linking biomedical resources

TL;DR

This paper presents an infrastructure and a web-based tool for annotating, discovering, and visualizing relationships among biomedical data and web resources to enhance knowledge exploration in life sciences.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel infrastructure and prototype tool for linking and visualizing biomedical resources and data relationships.

Findings

Effective annotation of biomedical resources

Discovery of meaningful relationships among data

Visualization of complex biomedical knowledge

Abstract

The establishment of links between data (e.g., patient records) and Web resources (e.g., literature) and the proper visualization of such discovered knowledge is still a challenge in most Life Science domains (e.g., biomedicine). In this paper we present our contribution to the community in the form of an infrastructure to annotate information resources, to discover relationships among them, and to represent and visualize the new discovered knowledge. Furthermore, we have also implemented a Web-based prototype tool which integrates the proposed infrastructure.