On the first day, at the symposium, the group tried to identify their main goals for the next few days. This is the ones that were selected by the Linked Data/SPARQL group :

* Get some tutorial about :

• RDF
• SPARQL
• Triplestore server
  • Virtuoso
  • 4Store
  • Sesame

* Convert existing databases to RDF, two candidates are :

• PDBj (Protein Data Bank Japan)  http://www.pdbj.org/
• miRBase: the microRNA database  http://www.mirbase.org/

* Create a discussion between Data provider presents :

• UniProt?
• EMBL
• DDBJ
• KEGG
• DBCLS

* Identify how we could link data from those projects :

• BioMart?
• PSI

Resume of the discussion written By Francois Belleau.