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Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

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In recent years ontologies have come to play an increasingly important role in the biomedical domain. Primary applications have been the formalisation of community knowledge in molecular biology, and the provision of a shared vocabulary for the annotation of the growing amount of biological data being generated. Ontologies now play a key role in the analysis and reporting of biological data and act as the basis for new biological services being hosted by various GRID projects. More formal methods from ontology theory are gradually being adopted, and have made the existing ontologies more robust. These approaches will continue to extend the number of potential applications for ontologies in the biomedical domain.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

  2. 2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology_(computer_science)

  3. 3.

    http://www.obofoundry.org/

  4. 4.

    http://www.obofoundry.org/

  5. 5.

    5 http://amigo.geneontology.org/

  6. 6.

    http://www.ebi.ac.uk/GOA

  7. 7.

    http://www.geneontology.org/GO.current.annotations.shtml

  8. 8.

    http://www.geneontology.org/GO.tools.shtml#annot

  9. 9.

    http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/∼rector/ontologies/simple-top-bio/

  10. 10.

    http://onto.eva.mpg.de/gfo-bio.html

  11. 11.

    http://onto.eva.mpg.de/gfo-bio.html

  12. 12.

    http://www.geneontology.org/GO.tools.shtml

  13. 13.

    http://func.eva.mpg.de/

  14. 14.

    http://www.hybrow.org/

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany

    Janet Kelso, Robert Hoehndorf & Kay Prüfer

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Robert Hoehndorf

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  3. Computer Technology Institute, Hellenic Open University &, N. Kazantzaki Str., Patras, 265 00, Greece

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Kelso, J., Hoehndorf, R., Prüfer, K. (2010). Ontologies in Biology. In: Poli, R., Healy, M., Kameas, A. (eds) Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8847-5_15

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