Exploring nanopublishing with COEUS

<p>A nanopublication represents the smallest unit of publishable information. This new schema (http://nanopub.org/nschema) enhances attribution and ownership of specific data elements. With these guidelines for relating atomic data with its authors, accessing and exchanging knowledge becomes a more efficient process. Nanopublications are particularly relevant in the scientific domain, where scientific publication, validation and ownership of data are essential.</p> <p>The COEUS semantic web application framework - http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/coeus/ - delivers, in a single package, all the tools required to rapidly build a new knowledge bases from scratch, including multiple data integration algorithms and interoperability services.</p> <p>This work introduces the combination of COEUS’ flexible integration and interoperability features with the nanopublications standard. This results in a unique nanopublishing pipeline, where collections of annotated data can be modeled and integrated, stored in a semantic knowledge base, and published through COEUS API. These improvements to the COEUS framework greatly benefit the scientific community, where publishing nanopublication datasets is still a cumbersome endeavor.