Towards Semantic e-Science for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information resources and domain-specific services in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The massive volume and diversity of information and services available have made it difficult to achieve seamless and interoperable e-Science for knowledge-intensive disciplines like TCM. Therefore, information integration and service coordination are two major challenges in e-Science for TCM. We still lack sophisticated approaches to integrate scientific data and services for TCM e-Science. Results: We present a comprehensive approach to build dynamic and extendable e-Science applications for knowledge-intensive disciplines like TCM based on semantic and knowledge-based techniques. The semantic e-Science infrastructure for TCM supports large-scale database integration and service coordination in a virtual organization. We use domain ontol...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Huajun Chen, Yuxin Mao, Xiaoqing Zheng, Meng Cui, Yi Feng, ShuiGuang Deng, Aining Yin, Chunying Zhou, Jingming Tang, Xiaohong Jiang, Zhaohui Wu
• Keywords: BMCBI 2007, E-Science, Knowledge-intensive Disciplines, Traditional Chinese Medicine