Lexical resources such as WordNet and VerbNet are widely used in a multitude of NLP tasks, as are annotated corpora such as treebanks. Often, the resources are used as-is, without question or examination. This practice risks missing significant performance gains and even entire techniques. This paper addresses the importance of resource quality through the lens of a challenging NLP task: detect...

Web services is distributed computing technology that provides software services over the Web. The Cyberinfrastructure Group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has adopted the Web service architecture and wrapped a wide variety of bioinformatics applications and data resources using the technology. Users can browse various data resources and invoke analysis tools through the service...

Biologists and biotechnologists need to draw information from numerous distributed and heterogeneous resources, such as online biomedical databases, nomenclatures and specialised bioinformatics tools. These tasks can benefit significantly from semantic data federation with SADI Semantic Web services where multiple resources exposed through SADI services are accessed as a single virtual SPARQL-q...

In the Life Sciences, numerous questions can be addressed only by comprehensively searching different types of data that are inherently ordered, or are associated with ranked confidence values. We previously proposed Search Computing to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. This paper presents how well known bioinformatics resource...

RNA expression analysis was performed on the corpus luteum tissue at five time points after prostaglandin F2 alpha treatment of midcycle cows using an Affymetrix Bovine Gene v1 Array. The normalized linear microarray data was uploaded to the NCBI GEO repository (GSE94069). Subsequent statistical analysis determined differentially expressed transcripts ± 1.5-fold change from saline control with ...

J. MICHAEL SCOTT,∗‡§§ JANET L. RACHLOW,∗ ROBERT T. LACKEY,§ ANNA B. PIDGORNA,† JOCELYN L. AYCRIGG,∗ GABRIELLE R. FELDMAN,∗∗ LEONA K. SVANCARA,∗ DAVID A. RUPP,† DAVID I. STANISH,∗ AND R. KIRK STEINHORST†† ∗Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136, U.S.A. †Environmental Science Program, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136, U.S.A. ‡U.S. Geologica...

Modern breeding of root and tuber staple food crops is the most practical strategy to address the challenges of small holding farmers in developing nations. The rapid advance of genomics technologies can enable breeders to design costeffective and efficient breeding strategies by exploiting the ability of molecular plant breeding to increase favorable gene action and efficiency of selection. Th...

Multicrystalline silicon solar cells are an important renewable energy technology that have the potential to provide the world with much of its energy. While they are relatively inexpensive, their efficiency is limited by material defects, and in particular by dislocations. Reducing dislocation densities in multicrystalline silicon solar cells could greatly increase their efficiency while only ...

In the Life Sciences, numerous questions can be addressed only by comprehensively searching different types of data that are inherently ordered, or are associated with ranked confidence values. We previously proposed Search Computing to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. This paper presents how well known bioinformatics resource...

David Adamson, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide, Australia; david.adamson{at}adelaide.edu.au