Interoperability between biomedical ontologies through relation expansion, upper-level ontologies and automatic reasoning.

Researchers design ontologies as a means to accurately annotate and integrate experimental data across heterogeneous and disparate data- and knowledge bases. Formal ontologies make the semantics of terms and relations explicit such that automated reasoning can be used to verify the consistency of kn...

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Main Authors: Robert Hoehndorf, Michel Dumontier, Anika Oellrich, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Paul N Schofield, Georgios V Gkoutos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3138764?pdf=render