[OTDev] R interface for OpenTox services

Christoph Helma helma at in-silico.ch
Mon Nov 1 18:29:03 CET 2010


Excerpts from Om's message of Fri Oct 29 22:11:50 +0200 2010:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a paper (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v25/i05/supp/2), which might me
> interesting for parsing RDF in R. The package "tm" can be used for parsing
> RSS feed RDF from Gmane.
> 
> Excerpt from paper
> --------------------------------------
> One key format is RDF (Manola and Miller 2004) where efforts to handle this
> format have already been made in R (R Development Core Team 2007) with the
> Bioconductor project (Gentleman et al. 2004, 2005). This development off ers
> great  exibility in document exchange. But with the growing popularity of
> XML based formats (e.g., RDF/XML as a common representation for RDF) tools
> need to be able to handle XML documents and metadata.
> ---------------------------------------

>From a quick glance I would say it does not help with parsing OWL-DL. A
quick question for those who are familiar with RDF usage in Bio- and
Chemoinformatics: I have the impression that most datasets and
applications are using plain RDF, not OWL-DL - is this correct?

Best regards,
Christoph



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