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Applying W3C Semantic Web standards to LIMS: emerging applications embrace the decentralized nature of R&D.(LABORATORY INFORMATICS GUIDE)

Scientific Computing, November, 2005 by Shanahan, Matthew R.

In science-based industries, R&D is distributed, decentralized and ever-changing, and so is its data. Driven by automation and informatics, scientists are faced with an unprecedented challenge of accessing data across a fluid and virtual landscape of experimental methods, diverse applications and databases. The fragmentation and scale of data makes integration of laboratory results and efforts difficult to achieve with traditional technologies.

Today, R&D organizations may build extensive data mining structures or make information available on the Web using XML in an attempt to publish meaningful associations between data, experiment parameters and findings. With XML and custom data mart schemas, a developer can program an application to reliably process the...

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