SPARQLGraph: a web-based platform for graphically querying biological Semantic Web databases

BMC Bioinformatics

Dominik Schweiger²  Zlatko Trajanoski²  Stephan Pabinger¹ 

[1] AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Health & Environment Department, Molecular Diagnostics, Vienna, Austria

[2] Division for Bioinformatics, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

关键词: Graphical query builder;    Database queries;    RDF;    Semantic web;    SPARQL;    Semantic database;   

Others  :  1086459
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2105-15-279

 received in 2014-02-26, accepted in 2014-08-12,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Semantic Web has established itself as a framework for using and sharing data across applications and database boundaries. Here, we present a web-based platform for querying biological Semantic Web databases in a graphical way.

Results

SPARQLGraph offers an intuitive drag & drop query builder, which converts the visual graph into a query and executes it on a public endpoint. The tool integrates several publicly available Semantic Web databases, including the databases of the just recently released EBI RDF platform. Furthermore, it provides several predefined template queries for answering biological questions. Users can easily create and save new query graphs, which can also be shared with other researchers.

Conclusions

This new graphical way of creating queries for biological Semantic Web databases considerably facilitates usability as it removes the requirement of knowing specific query languages and database structures. The system is freely available at http://sparqlgraph.i-med.ac.at webcite.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Schweiger et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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