Journal of Biomedical Semantics


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Identifying and relating biological concepts in the Catalogue of Life

Andrew C Jones1*, Richard J White1 and Ewen R Orme1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

2 Covalent Software Ltd, 3 Hammet Street, Taunton, Somerset TA1 1RZ, UK

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Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:7 doi:10.1186/2041-1480-2-7

Published: 17 October 2011

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Additional file 1:

An abbreviated example of resolver metadata RDF response corresponding to Figure 5. This file provides the XML underlying the structure presented in Figure 5. Note that the namespace declarations have been removed; also C: refers to elements in the TaxonConcept namespace and N: refers to elements of the TaxonName namespace. The relationships between the taxon which this metadata represents (with name "Abrus precatorius") and the other taxa to which it relates are highlighted in bold face.

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Additional file 2:

An abbreviated example of resolver metadata RDF response corresponding to Figure 6. This file provides the XML underlying the structure presented in Figure 6. Note that the namespace declarations have been removed; also C: refers to elements in the TaxonConcept namespace and N: refers to elements of the TaxonName namespace. The key elements that indicate the relationship between the Catalogue of Life taxon which this metadata represents and the source taxon are highlighted in bold face (the IsCongruentTo relationship and the Index Fungorum LSID).

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Additional file 3:

An abbreviated experimental LSID-enabled wrapper XML response corresponding to Figure 7. The extensions to the standard Species 2000 "type #2" response which have been made in order to accommodate LSIDs are highlighted in bold face.

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