UNLABELLED: The BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) is undertaking large experimental campaigns to understand the biosynthesis and biodegradation of biomass and to develop biofuel solutions. BESC is generating large volumes of diverse data, including genome sequences, omics data and assay results. The purpose of the BESC Knowledgebase is to serve as a centralized repository for experimentally generated data and to provide an integrated, interactive and user-friendly analysis framework. The Portal makes available tools for visualization, integration and analysis of data either produced by BESC or obtained from external resources. AVAILABILITY: http://besckb.ornl.gov.

Healthcare systems, especially Emergency Medical Services systems, will greatly benefit from new developments in mobile database technology. One area that has received little attention is the representation of rules for accurate data capture in a mobile environment. Herein we describe the use of semantic web technologies to embed rules in a mobile database. The rules are presented as Topic Maps and are accessed by a Semantic Interpretation Layer (SIL). Embedding rules in mobile healthcare applications will ensure accurate patient data capture and speed the creation of large knowledge bases of patient information. These knowledge bases will, in turn, support the creation of intelligent patient care systems that can not only define, but begin to anticipate patient care needs.