Toward Semantics Empowered Biomedical Web Services

Jia Zhang, Ravi Madduri, Wei Tan, Kevin Deichl, John Alexander, Ian Foster
2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services  
caGrid has accumulated a repository of biomedical services; however, how a cancer researcher can find proper services in the caGrid when needed remains a big challenge. This research aims to enhance the cyberinfrastructure of caGrid, by developing a mechanism that turns caGrid services into semanticaware interoperable services. We proposed a service semantics model, and developed a technique that automatically extracts semantic metadata from static WSDL service descriptions. Such semantic
more » ... ation is stored as loosely coupled annotations that can be queried using semantic Web techniques, to enhance services discovery and composition. We also proposed a two-phase discovery technique that helps users quickly identify interested service operations. This paper also reports our examinations over available techniques and recommends a feasible infrastructure for biomedical service reuse. A prototyping system is developed as a proof of concept.
doi:10.1109/icws.2011.123 dblp:conf/icws/ZhangMTDAF11 fatcat:zg6omrbzdbawvlzt57wf5x4lrm