RiBS Lab

The Research in Bioinformatics and Semantic Web (RiBS) Lab of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, is led by Professor Daniel P. Miranker . Our current research focuses on bioinformatics, semantic web, intelligent information systems, data indexing, search and warehousing.

Bioinformatics

Our current projects concern comparative RNA sequence analysis and proteomic mass-spectroscopy .

• RNA Sequence Alignment and Comparative Analysis
• MoBIoS, The Molecular Biological Information System

Semantic Web

Our current projects concern data integration, ontology mapping, faceted search, the automated mapping of legacy relational databases to the Semantic Web and Image-Based Ontologies with applications to Biodiversity and Systematic Biology. Our current projects are:

• Ultrawrap: a Relational Database to RDF system
• Diamond: a Linked Data query engine
• Morphster: Image-driven Ontology Editor
• Ontobrowser: Ontology based Image-Retrieval search engine

Latest Publications

• Juan F. Sequeda, Syed Hamid Tirmizi, Oscar Corcho and Daniel P. Miranker. Directly Mapping SQL Databases to the Semantic Web: a survey. To appear in Journal of Knowledge Engineering Review. 2011
• Syed Hamid Tirmizi, Stuart Aitken, Dilvan Moreira, Chris Mungall, Juan Sequeda, Nigam Shah and Daniel Miranker. OBO & OWL: Roundtrip Ontology Transformations. In Proceedings of Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 20, 2009. preprint request
• "Mining gene functional networks to improve mass-spectrometry based protein identification", Bioinformatics, 2009. Supporting web site, MSNET