PMID- 19457869 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090810 LR - 20090609 IS - 1477-4054 (Electronic) IS - 1467-5463 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 4 DP - 2009 Jul TI - Biological knowledge management: the emerging role of the Semantic Web technologies. PG - 392-407 LID - 10.1093/bib/bbp024 [doi] AB - New knowledge is produced at a continuously increasing speed, and the list of papers, databases and other knowledge sources that a researcher in the life sciences needs to cope with is actually turning into a problem rather than an asset. The adequate management of knowledge is therefore becoming fundamentally important for life scientists, especially if they work with approaches that thoroughly depend on knowledge integration, such as systems biology. Several initiatives to organize biological knowledge sources into a readily exploitable resourceome are presently being carried out. Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies revolutionize these efforts. Here, we review the benefits, trends, current possibilities, and the potential this holds for the biosciences. FAU - Antezana, Erick AU - Antezana E AD - Department of Biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. FAU - Kuiper, Martin AU - Kuiper M FAU - Mironov, Vladimir AU - Mironov V LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20090519 PL - England TA - Brief Bioinform JT - Briefings in bioinformatics JID - 100912837 SB - IM MH - Computational Biology/methods MH - Database Management Systems MH - Humans MH - Information Dissemination/methods MH - Information Storage and Retrieval/*methods MH - *Internet MH - *Semantics MH - Systems Biology MH - *User-Computer Interface RF - 181 EDAT- 2009/05/22 09:00 MHDA- 2009/08/11 09:00 CRDT- 2009/05/22 09:00 PHST- 2009/05/22 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/05/22 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/08/11 09:00 [medline] AID - bbp024 [pii] AID - 10.1093/bib/bbp024 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brief Bioinform. 2009 Jul;10(4):392-407. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbp024. Epub 2009 May 19.