A Distributed Agent System upon Semantic Web Technologies to Provide Biological Data

Abstract. Bioinformaticians are accustomed to going through analysis steps, in which they employ several data sources, like protein sequence and protein interaction databases, to carry out their study. However, the ever-growing size and the dynamic nature of the biological databases make it almost impossible to use the biological data without a sophisticated data-providing infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce a distributed data providing agent system that answers biological queries according to its ontology of biological entities.