title: Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration.
abstract: The World Wide Web has revolutionized how researchers from various disciplines collaborate over long distances. This is nowhere more important than in the Life Sciences, where interdisciplinary approaches are becoming increasingly powerful as a driver of both integration and discovery. Data access, data quality, identity, and provenance are all critical ingredients to facilitate and accelerate these collaborative enterprises and it is here where Semantic Web technologies promise to have a profound impact. This paper reviews the need for, and explores advantages of as well as challenges with these novel Internet information tools as illustrated with examples from the biomedical community.
authors.affiliation: Complex Biosystems Modeling Laboratory, Harvard-MIT (HST) Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sagotsky
authors.forename: Le
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhihui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Thomas S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Deisboeck
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods*; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet / Q000639:trends*