Table 1.

Examples of semantic classes and their instances

Semantic class	Example instances
Algorithm	SigCalc algorithm, CHAOS local alignment, SNP analysis, KEGG Genome-based approach, GeneMark method, K-fold cross validation procedure
Application	PreBIND Searcher program, Apollo2Go Web Service, FLIP application, Apollo Genome Annotation curation tool, GenePix software, Pegasys system
Data	GeneBank record, Genome Microbial CoDing sequences, Drug Data report
Data resource	PIR Protein Information Resource, BIND database, TIGR dataset, BioMOBY Public Code repository