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Semantically Annotated Provenance in the Life Science Grid

TitleSemantically Annotated Provenance in the Life Science Grid
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Publication2009
Date Published10/25/2009
AuthorsCao, B., B. Plale, G. Subramanian, P. Missier, C. Goble, and Y. Simmhan
Refereed DesignationUnknown
Secondary AuthorsFreire, J., P. Missier, and S. S. Sahoo
Conference NameThe First International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management
Series Titleco-located with 8th Int’l Semantic Web Conference
Volume526
PublisherCERU Workshop Proceedings
Conference LocationWashington D.C., USA
Publication Languageeng
KeywordsLife sciences, provenance, semantic annotation
AbstractAugmenting raw provenance data with selected semantic annotations can help bridge the gap between low level events captured by instrumentation and the high-level view that the user has of his/her investigation. In this initial investigation we added provenance to the Eli Lilly open source Life Science Grid, a cyber-infrastructure framework supporting interactive data exploration and automated data analysis tools, through (i) automated data provenance collection using the Karma provenance framework, and (ii) automated semantic enrichment of the collected provenance metadata using the S-OGSA semantic annotation framework. Using a paradigmatic use case of interactive data exploration in the Life Science shows that provenance can help users recognize the occurrence of specific patterns of investigation from an otherwise low-level sequence of elementary interaction events.
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