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Michel Dumontier edited this page Jul 9, 2014
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Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences. Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple data providers.
Bio2RDF Release 3 (July 2014) Release Notes:
- 10 billion triples across 29 datasets ** new datasets include: clinicaltrials.gov, dbSNP, GenAge, GenDR, LSR, OrphaNet, PubMed, SIDER, WormBase)
- more complete dataset statistics
- hundreds of bug fixes to improve overall representation of datasets.
- every URI is typed as an instance of an owl:Class, owl:ObjectProperty, or owl:DatatypeProperty, as well as typed as an instance of a Resource in the dataset and linked to a description from the Life Science Registry (LSR)
- CORS-enabled SPARQL 1.1 endpoints using Virtuoso 7.1.0
- and as always, provenance and downloadable content:
Bio2RDF Release 2 (Jan 2013) Features:
- 1 billion triples across 19 datasets
- updated, MIT licensed scripts available for any use (including commercial use), modification and redistribution.
- IRI normalization through a common dataset registry
- dataset provenance to inform a user of what version of data they are using and how it was generated.
- dataset statistics to describe intra and inter dataset connectivity.
- public CORS-enabled SPARQL 1.1 endpoints for faceted search and federated SPARQL queries
- downloadable content RDF files and full text-indexed Virtuoso triple stores
Bio2RDF Resources: