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Ad Hoc Data Foraging in a Life Sciences Community Ecosystem Using SoDa †.

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Title: Ad Hoc Data Foraging in a Life Sciences Community Ecosystem Using SoDa †.
Authors: Naha, Kallol, Jamil, Hasan M.
Source: Applied Sciences (2076-3417); Jan2025, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p621, 22p
Subject Terms: LANGUAGE models, WORKFLOW, INFORMATION resources, DATA integration, INFORMATION networks
Abstract: Biologists often set out to find relevant data in an ever-changing landscape of interesting databases. While leading journals publish descriptions of databases, they are usually not recent and do not frequently update the list that discards defunct or poor-quality databases. These indices usually include databases that are proactively requested to be included by their authors. The challenge for individual biologists, then, is to discover, explore, and select databases of interest from a large unorganized collection and effectively use them in their analysis without too large of an investment. The advocation of the FAIR data principle to improve searching, finding, accessing, and inter-operating among these diverse information sources in order to increase usability is proving to be a difficult proposition and consequently, a large number of data sources are not FAIR-compliant. Since linked open data do not guarantee FAIRness, biologists are now left to individually search for information in open networks. In this paper, we propose SoDa, for intelligent data foraging on the internet by biologists. SoDa helps biologists to discover resources based on analysis requirements and generate resource access plans, as well as storing cleaned data and knowledge for community use. SoDa includes a natural language-powered resource discovery tool, a tool to retrieve data from remote databases, organize and store collected data, query stored data, and seek help from the community when things do not work as anticipated. A secondary search index is also supported for community members to find archived information in a convenient way to enable its reuse. The features supported in SoDa endows biologists with data integration capabilities over arbitrary linked open databases and construct powerful computational pipelines using them, capabilities that are not supported in most contemporary biological workflow systems, such as Taverna or Galaxy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:Biologists often set out to find relevant data in an ever-changing landscape of interesting databases. While leading journals publish descriptions of databases, they are usually not recent and do not frequently update the list that discards defunct or poor-quality databases. These indices usually include databases that are proactively requested to be included by their authors. The challenge for individual biologists, then, is to discover, explore, and select databases of interest from a large unorganized collection and effectively use them in their analysis without too large of an investment. The advocation of the FAIR data principle to improve searching, finding, accessing, and inter-operating among these diverse information sources in order to increase usability is proving to be a difficult proposition and consequently, a large number of data sources are not FAIR-compliant. Since linked open data do not guarantee FAIRness, biologists are now left to individually search for information in open networks. In this paper, we propose SoDa, for intelligent data foraging on the internet by biologists. SoDa helps biologists to discover resources based on analysis requirements and generate resource access plans, as well as storing cleaned data and knowledge for community use. SoDa includes a natural language-powered resource discovery tool, a tool to retrieve data from remote databases, organize and store collected data, query stored data, and seek help from the community when things do not work as anticipated. A secondary search index is also supported for community members to find archived information in a convenient way to enable its reuse. The features supported in SoDa endows biologists with data integration capabilities over arbitrary linked open databases and construct powerful computational pipelines using them, capabilities that are not supported in most contemporary biological workflow systems, such as Taverna or Galaxy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:20763417
DOI:10.3390/app15020621