Plant and Animal Genome XXI Conference

January 11 - 16, 2013

iPlant Semantic Web Platform SSWAP: Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol

The iPlant Collaborative uses SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol) as the underlying technology for dynamic, semantically-aware pipelines. Users can make pipelines by dragging-and-dropping services in a web-based Rich Internet Application. On the backend, an automated description-logic reasoner is continually examining the pipeline as the user is constructing it so that those services and only those services that satisfy the data semantics are offered at any given step. Web sites can also semantically tag their data, and users can launch into pipelines with that data to discover those services that can operate on the data. iPlant users can perform multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree reconstruction, and visualization using iPlant's High Performance Computing assets at the University of Arizona and Texas Advanced Computing Center. Third-party developers may publish their own services. These benefit from the same computational semantic enablement, allowing a pipelining of data and a mix-n-match of services across service providers. This workshop introduces users and developers to iPlant's Semantic Web Platform. Topics include an introduction to the vision of the program, its technologies, a guest application, and how to use it as both a scientist and a developer. The web site is at http://sswap.info.