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.