Ontology-Based Queries Over Cancer Data

Abstract

The ever-increasing amount of data in biomedical research, and in cancer research in particular, needs to be managed to support efficient data access, exchange and integration. Existing software infrastructures, such caGrid, support access to distributed information annotated with a domain ontology. However, caGrid's current querying functionality depends on the structure of individual data resources without exploiting the semantic annotations.

In this paper, we present the design and development of an ontology-based querying functionality that consists of: the generation of OWL2 ontologies from the underlying data resources metadata and a query rewriting and translation process based on reasoning, which converts a query at the domain ontology level into queries at the software infrastructure level.

We present a detailed analysis of our approach as well as an extensive performance evaluation. While the implementation and evaluation was performed for the caGrid infrastructure, the approach could be applicable to other model and metadata-driven environments for data sharing

Title:Ontology-Based Queries Over Cancer Data

Author:Alejandra González Beltrán
Author: Ben Tagger
Author: Anthony Finkelstein

Publication:Proceedings of Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences | full text (PDF)

Year:2010

D.O.I:arXiv:1012.5506v1

Tags: Alejandra González Beltrán Anthony Finkelstein Ben Tagger biomedical research caGrid cancer data handling data integration data overload metadata module extraction ontology query semantic annotations sequence pattern SWAT4LS2010 UML