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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 2 Featuers:

• 1 billion triples across 19 updated 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:

• RDFization Guide
• Discussion Forum
• Query Repository
• Bio2RDF Media
• Cite Bio2RDF
• Terms of use