THE SEMANTIC AUTOMATED DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION (SADI) WEB SERVICE DESIGN-PATTERN, API AND REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION

The Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration (SADI) Web service Design-Pattern, API and Reference Implementation

Abstract Background The complexity and inter-related nature of biological data poses a difficult challenge for data and tool integration.There has been a proliferation of interoperability standards and projects over the past decade, none of which has been widely adopted by the bioinformatics community.Recent attempts have focused on the use of sema

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Compact Exotic Tetraquark Mesons in Large-Nc QCD

We embark on systematic explorations of the behaviour of tetraquark mesons, i.e., colour-singlet bound states of two quarks and two antiquarks, in the (idealized) limit of a large number of colour degrees of freedom, Nc,; of quantum Toy Playsets chromodynamics, QCD.Considering the scattering of two ordinary mesons into two ordinary mesons, we start

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Effects of natural banks of free-floating plants on zooplankton community in a shallow subtropical lake in Southern Brazil

The aim of this study was to test the effects of natural free-floating plants on zooplankton distribution in a shallow subtropical lake.First, the hypothesis that free-floating plants have an effect on physico-chemicals, leading to a decrease on nutrient availability and influencing the phytoplankton biomass and zooplankton community was tested.Sec

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