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: Hoehndorf, Robert, Dumontier, Michel, Oellrich, Anika, Rebholz-Schuhmann, Dietrich, Schofield, Paul N., Gkoutos, Georgios V.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138764/