NanoWeb: Search, access and explore life science nanopublications on the web

Nanopublications are scientific statements represented in the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a brief machine-readable form representing data. Nanopublications consist of scientific facts extracted from the literature and contextualized with provenance and attribution information. Nanopublications are designed to enhance knowledge spreading, support the re-use of scientific facts, and provide credit to the corresponding authors. Despite these promising features, nanopublications are not widely adopted, and their use is still quite limited to experts. We believe this is partly due to the lack of services for searching, retrieving, and understanding nanopublications. To mitigate this, we propose NanoWeb, a Web-based system designed to allow general users to search, access, explore, and re-use nanopublications publicly available on the Web. Currently, NanoWeb is tailored for the life science domain, where plenty of nanopublications are available.