Semantic Rule Processing for Real-time Data Integration

Integration-as-a-service platforms arise as a modern strategy to integrate data from distributed environments. Nowadays, service interoperability strategies, such as workflows and static service-oriented architectures, are giving place to more dynamic environments, where the path from the original resource to the integrative destination is triggered autonomously and in real-time. However, these concepts still have not been applied to bioinformatics, in great part due to the complexity underlying the data validation and transformation tasks. In this manuscript we introduce a component to enhance these activities by enabling the execution of complex preand post-integration semantic algorithms. By leveraging on comprehensive Semantic Web constructs, these activities are better suited to the life sciences domain.