BioSparqlDraft.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_rdf'


class Bio
  class SPARQL

     def initialize(params ={})
        @adapter=ConnectionPool.add(:type => :sparql, :url => 'http://geneid.bio2rdf.org/sparql', :engine => :virtuoso)
     end


     def full_text_search(text)
        Query.new.select(:s, :p, :o).where(:s,:p,:o).where(:o,RDFS::Resource.new('bif:contains'), text).execute
     end

     def self.to_tab(results)
        results.collect {|row|
           row.join("\t")
        }
     end
   end
end



myEndPoint=Bio::SPARQL.new
#look for Gene TP53
myGeneSemWeb=myEndPoint.full_text_search("TP53")

#Format in a tabular format
puts myEndPoint.to_tab(myGeneSemWeb)