SADI for GMOD: Semantic web services for model organism databases

Here we describe work-in-progress on the SADI for GMOD project (SADI: Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration; GMOD: Generic Model Organism Database), a distribution of ready-made Web services that will bring additional model organism data onto the Seman- tic Web. SADI is a lightweight standard for implementing Web services that natively consume and generate RDF, while GMOD is a widely-used toolkit for building model organism databases (e.g. FlyBase, Parameci- umDB). The SADI for GMOD services will provide a novel mechanism for analyzing data across GMOD sites, as well as other bioinformatics resources that publish their data using SADI.