| Title: | Ontologies for Molecular Biology. |
| Authors: | Steffen Schulze-Kremer |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic
Articles in Computer and Information Science ISSN 1401-9841 |
| Issue: | Vol. 6(2001): nr 021 |
| URL: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ea/cis/2001/021/ |
| Abstract: |
Molecular biology has a communication problem. There are many databases
using their own labels and categories for storing data objects and
some using identical labels and categories but with a different meaning.
A prominent
example is the concept "gene" which is
used with different semantics by major international genomic databases.
Ontologies are one means to provide a semantic repository that can be used to
systematically order relevant concepts in molecular biology and to bridge
the different notions in various databases
by explicitly
specifying the meaning of and relation between the fundamental concepts
in an application domain. Here,
the upper level and a database branch of a prospective ontology
for molecular biology is presented and compared to other ontologies
with respect to suitability for molecular biology
http://igd.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~www/oe/mbo.html
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