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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on May 8, 2007
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbm017
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Boca: an open-source RDF store for building Semantic Web applications

Lee Feigenbaum, Sean Martin, Matthew N. Roy, Benjamin Szekely and Wing C. Yung

Corresponding author. Lee Feigenbaum, 1 Rogers St., Floor 3N, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Tel: 1-617-894-6223, E-mail: feigenbl{at}us.ibm.com

This article presents the design goals and features of the open-source Boca RDF server in the context of a community of cancer-tumor modeling investigators. Boca supplements the desirable data features of the Semantic Web with important enterprise and application features to power a new generation of Semantic-Web-based applications. The data features enable the integration and retrieval of tremendous quantities of diverse data. The enterprise features promote data integrity, fidelity, provenance and robustness. The application features provide for collaborative applications and dynamic user interfaces.

Keywords: Semantic Web, data integration, open source, database, modeling, RDF

All authors work for IBM's Internet Technology Group in Cambridge, MA. The team currently focuses on researching and developing strategies and software for leveraging Semantic-Web technologies within enterprises.

Received (in revised form): February 23, 2007.

Accepted: April 6, 2007.


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