Data curation + process curation=data integration + science Export

@article{citeulike:3755478, abstract = {In bioinformatics, we are familiar with the idea of curated data as a prerequisite for data integration. We neglect, often to our cost, the curation and cataloguing of the processes that we use to integrate and analyse our data. Programmatic access to services, for data and processes, means that compositions of services can be made that represent the in silico experiments or processes that bioinformaticians perform. Data integration through workflows depends on being able to know what services exist and where to find those services. The large number of services and the operations they perform, their arbitrary naming and lack of documentation, however, mean that they can be difficult to use. The workflows themselves are composite processes that could be pooled and reused but only if they too can be found and understood. Thus appropriate curation, including semantic mark-up, would enable processes to be found, maintained and consequently used more easily. This broader view on semantic annotation is vital for full data integration that is necessary for the modern scientific analyses in biology. This article will brief the community on the current state of the art and the current challenges for process curation, both within and without the Life Sciences. 10.1093/bib/bbn034}, author = {Goble, Carole and Stevens, Robert and Hull, Duncan and Wolstencroft, Katy and Lopez, Rodrigo}, citeulike-article-id = {3755478}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.biomedexperts.com/Abstract.bme/19060304}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbn034}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://intl-bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/6/506.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://intl-bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/6/506.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/6/506}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19060304}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19060304}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/bib/bbn034}, issn = {1477-4054}, journal = {Brief Bioinform}, keywords = {carole-goble, duncan-hull, myexperiment, taverna}, month = {November}, number = {6}, pages = {506--517}, posted-at = {2009-01-04 18:11:56}, priority = {0}, title = {Data curation + process curation=data integration + science}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbn034}, volume = {9}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3755478 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3755478 N2 - In bioinformatics, we are familiar with the idea of curated data as a prerequisite for data integration. We neglect, often to our cost, the curation and cataloguing of the processes that we use to integrate and analyse our data. Programmatic access to services, for data and processes, means that compositions of services can be made that represent the in silico experiments or processes that bioinformaticians perform. Data integration through workflows depends on being able to know what services exist and where to find those services. The large number of services and the operations they perform, their arbitrary naming and lack of documentation, however, mean that they can be difficult to use. The workflows themselves are composite processes that could be pooled and reused but only if they too can be found and understood. Thus appropriate curation, including semantic mark-up, would enable processes to be found, maintained and consequently used more easily. This broader view on semantic annotation is vital for full data integration that is necessary for the modern scientific analyses in biology. This article will brief the community on the current state of the art and the current challenges for process curation, both within and without the Life Sciences. 10.1093/bib/bbn034 IS - 6 JF - Brief Bioinform SN - 1477-4054 EP - 517 TI - Data curation + process curation=data integration + science VL - 9 SP - 506 KW - carole-goble KW - duncan-hull KW - myexperiment KW - taverna AU - Goble, Carole AU - Stevens, Robert AU - Hull, Duncan AU - Wolstencroft, Katy AU - Lopez, Rodrigo PY - 2008/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbn034 ER -