Understanding the mechanisms involved in life (e. g., discovering the biological functionofasetofproteins, inferringtheevolutionofasetofspecies)isbecoming increasinglydependent onprogressmade inmathematics, computer science, and molecular engineering. For the past 30 years, new high-throughput technologies have been developed generating large amounts of data, distributed across many data sources on the Web, with a high degree of semantic heterogeneity and di?erentlevelsofquality. However, onesuchdatasetisnot, byitself, su?cientfor scienti?c discovery. Instead, it must be combined with other...
Understanding the mechanisms involved in life (e. g., discovering the biological functionofasetofproteins, inferringtheevolutionofasetofspecies)isbeco...