Re: ontologies for BioRDF and LODD datasets

2010-04-22 Thread Kei Cheung
The first question: what is drug? Dailymed seems to deal with marketed drugs at the FDA level, while drugbank seems to deal with drugs at the chemical/pharmacological/pharmaceutical level. There seems to be overlapping as well as unique parts between the two. Is the wikipedia definition of drug

RE: ontologies for BioRDF and LODD datasets

2010-04-22 Thread Michel_Dumontier
Hi François, You can imagine that Linking Open Data (LOD) is the first generation of making *open data* available with semantic web technologies. It takes significant amounts of time and effort to determine whether "drug" is the same or different concept in DrugBank, PharmGKB, Dailymed, ChEBI,