Section: New Software and Platforms

AskOmics

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Linked data - Networks - Semantic Web - Omics

Functional Description

This tool was designed in 2015 in the framework of the MIRNadapt project. Biological studies and bioinformatical analysis produce numerous heterogeneous data, calling for their integration. AskOmics is an integration and interrogation software relying on an RDF model and the SPARQL query language. Its purpose is to obtain quick answers to biological questions demanding currently hours of manual search in several spreadsheet results files. New study perpectives will arise from these answers and from this integration work. Using AskOmics, we integrated an omic dataset borrowed from the MiRNAdapt ANR project that aims to describe the networks of the genes involved in aphids adaptation to seasons. AskOmics allows biologists to integrate and interrogate themselves their data without needing any knowledge about RDF and SPARQL. The query process consists in linking sets of biological entities as nodes in a graphical interface, optionaly specifying biological attributes for these nodes. The graph is then converted inton a SPARQL query to provide the user an answer to his biological questions. The answers are the elements of the sets that match the query contraints.

• Participants: Charles Bettembourg, Anthony Bretaudeau, Olivier Dameron, Aurélie Evrard, Yvanne Chaussin, Anne Siegel, Fabrice Legeai

• Partners: INRA IGEPP

• Contact: Fabrice Legeai

• URL: http://bipaa.genouest.org/askomics_aphid/