Exploiting Different Bioinformatics Resources for Enhancing Content Recommendations

To assist the user in his/her quest for information it may be possible to draw and combine information from multiple resources in order to provide more accurate answers/recommendations. Resources can be structured (such as ontologies and taxonomies) or unstructured (corpora). The purpose of this work is to explore how better recommendations can be provided to users by mining and exploiting semantic relations, hidden associations, and overlapping information between various concepts in multiple bioinformatics resources such as ontologies, websites, and corpora. The work also utilizes users’ interests to enhance the provided recommendations. A number of techniques will be explored and developed, including ontology mapping, reasoning with multiple resources, and constructing adaptive user profiles.