Towards Virtual Knowledge Broker services for semantic integration of life science literature and data sources

► Review of data integration in the life sciences with emphasis on semantic web. ► Concept of a Virtual Knowledge Broker (VKB) is applied to the life sciences. ► Semantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature (SESL) demonstrator is an exemplar. ► Successful integration of data from numerous structured and unstructured sources. ► The Pistoia Alliance precompetitive consortium delivered the pilot demonstrator.