It all started in the November 23 2005

and here we are today with the 500th citations.

The Bio2RDF project uses open-source Semantic Web technologies to provide interlinked life science data to support biological knowledge discovery. Using both syntactic and semantic data integration techniques, Bio2RDF puts into practice a simple methodology to generate and seamlessly integrate machine-interpretable data that can be powerfully interograted with SPARQL-based queries to answer sophisticated questions.