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In recent years, web services have become increasingly important components of the scientific methodology of certain domains. Currently, however, the description and use of most these is purely ‘syntactic’; that is, the semantics of the services are left to the human user to infer or acquire by other means before deciding whether and how to use a service. Consequently, there are opportunities to bridge this semantic gap through the application of emerging semantic web and semantic web service technologies in these domains, thereby enriching and expanding a user’s service interactions. This paper presents its authors’ experiences of the application and use of these emerging technologies in a displicine in which web services already play a key role: bioinformatics.
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Potter, S., Aitken, S. (2005). A Semantic Service Environment: A Case Study in Bioinformatics. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Euzenat, J. (eds) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11431053_47
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