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The PILIN project (Persistent Identifier and Linking Infrastructure) was identified as an important national initiative in the third quarter of 2006. It was approved as a sub project of the ARROW II (Australian Research Repositories on line to the world) suite of activities in September 2006. As various projects matured, including FRODO and MERRI, there was a growing realisation that sustainable identifier infrastructure was required to deal with the vast amount of digital assets being produced and stored within universities. This was and is a particular challenge for e-research communities where massive amounts of data are being generated without any means of managing this data over any length of time. Many organisations, including the National Library of Australia, had been experimenting with persistent identifiers for some time. However there was no consensus or consistency across the educational and cultural/collecting agencies sectors. The PILIN project was an opportunity to comprehensively test the needs and parameters of identifier infrastructure as well as to establish the foundations of a future national service. Prior to project commencement it was decided to use the Handle technology (http://www.handle.net ) as core software while at the same time approaching the project from a technology neutral stance as far as was possible. Despite its ARROW base the PILIN project was set up to have diverse stakeholders across all education and into cultural organisations/collecting agencies.

We introduce the first meta-service for information extraction in molecular biology, the BioCreative MetaServer (BCMS; http://bcms.bioinfo.cnio.es/). This prototype platform is a joint effort of 13 research groups and provides automatically generated annotations for PubMed/Medline abstracts. Annotation types cover gene names, gene IDs, species, and protein-protein interactions. The annotations are distributed by the meta-server in both human and machine readable formats (HTML/XML). This service is intended to be used by biomedical researchers and database annotators, and in biomedical language processing. The platform allows direct comparison, unified access, and result aggregation of the annotations.

Presently, there are numerous bioinformatics databases available on different websites. Although RDF was proposed as a standard format for the web, these databases are still available in various formats. With the increasing popularity of the semantic web technologies and the ever growing number of databases in bioinformatics, there is a pressing need to develop mashup systems to help the process of bioinformatics knowledge integration. Bio2RDF is such a system, built from rdfizer programs written in JSP, the Sesame open source triplestore technology and an OWL ontology. With Bio2RDF, documents from public bioinformatics databases such as Kegg, PDB, MGI, HGNC and several of NCBI’s databases can now be made available in RDF format through a unique URL in the form of http://bio2rdf.org/namespace:id. The Bio2RDF project has successfully applied the semantic web technology to publicly available databases by creating a knowledge space of RDF documents linked together with normalized URIs and sharing a common ontology. Bio2RDF is based on a three-step approach to build mashups of bioinformatics data. The present article details this new approach and illustrates the building of a mashup used to explore the implication of four transcription factor genes in Parkinson’s disease. The Bio2RDF repository can be queried at http://bio2rdf.org.

We have devised a unique, non-degenerate encoding scheme that can be used as a universal representation to identify an oligonucleotide across manufacturers. We have named the encoded representation 'nuID', for nucleotide universal identifier. Inspired by the fact that the raw sequence of the oligonucleotide is the true definition of identity for a probe, the encoding algorithm uniquely and non-degenerately transforms the sequence itself into a compact identifier (a lossless compression). In addition, we added a redundancy check (checksum) to validate the integrity of the identifier. These two steps, encoding plus checksum, result in an nuID, which is a unique, non-degenerate, permanent, robust and efficient representation of the probe sequence. For commercial applications that require the sequence identity to be confidential, we have an encryption schema for nuID. We demonstrate the utility of nuIDs for the annotation of Illumina microarrays, and we believe it has universal applicability as a source-independent naming convention for oligomers.