ChemCloud: Chemical e-Science Information Cloud

TL;DR

ChemCloud is a Semantic Web-based infrastructure that integrates diverse chemical and bio-chemical databases, tools, and services to facilitate knowledge sharing and automation in chemical sciences.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive semantic integration platform combining multiple databases and knowledge bases using W3C Semantic Web technologies for the chemical domain.

Findings

Successful semantic linking of diverse chemical databases

Enhanced accessibility of chemical knowledge resources

Facilitated automated data retrieval and integration

Abstract

Our Chemical e-Science Information Cloud (ChemCloud) - a Semantic Web based eScience infrastructure - integrates and automates a multitude of databases, tools and services in the domain of chemistry, pharmacy and bio-chemistry available at the Fachinformationszentrum Chemie (FIZ Chemie), at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB), and on the public Web. Based on the approach of the W3C Linked Open Data initiative and the W3C Semantic Web technologies for ontologies and rules it semantically links and integrates knowledge from our W3C HCLS knowledge base hosted at the FUB, our multi-domain knowledge base DBpedia (Deutschland) implemented at FUB, which is extracted from Wikipedia (De) providing a public semantic resource for chemistry, and our well-established databases at FIZ Chemie such as ChemInform for organic reaction data, InfoTherm the leading source for thermophysical data, Chemisches Zentralblatt, the complete chemistry knowledge from 1830 to 1969, and ChemgaPedia the largest and most frequented e-Learning platform for Chemistry and related sciences in German language.