Relations in biomedical ontologies -: art. no. R46

被引:592
作者
Smith, B [1 ]
Ceusters, W
Klagges, B
Köhler, J
Kumar, A
Lomax, J
Mungall, C
Neuhaus, F
Rector, AL
Rosse, C
机构
[1] Univ Saarland, Inst Formal Ontol & Med Informat Sci, D-66041 Saarbrucken, Germany
[2] SUNY Buffalo, Dept Philosophy, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA
[3] Univ Saarland, European Ctr Ontol Res, D-66041 Saarbrucken, Germany
[4] Univ Leipzig, Dept Genet, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
[5] Rothamsted Res, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, Herts, England
[6] European Bioinformat Inst, Hinxton CB10 1SD, England
[7] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Mol & Cellular Biol, HHMI, Berkeley, CA 94729 USA
[8] Univ Manchester, Dept Comp Sci, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[9] Univ Washington, Dept Biol Struct, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
关键词
Gene Ontology; Spatial Region; Unify Medical Language System; Process Instance; Relation Ontology;
D O I
10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
To enhance the treatment of relations in biomedical ontologies we advance a methodology for providing consistent and unambiguous formal definitions of the relational expressions used in such ontologies in a way designed to assist developers and users in avoiding errors in coding and annotation. The resulting Relation Ontology can promote interoperability of ontologies and support new types of automated reasoning about the spatial and temporal dimensions of biological and medical phenomena.
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