Relations in Biomedical Ontologies

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2005 May 17

PMID 15892874

Citations 352

Authors

Barry Smith

Werner Ceusters

Bert Klagges

Jacob Kohler

Anand Kumar

Jane Lomax

Chris Mungall

Fabian Neuhaus

Alan L Rector

Cornelius Rosse

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Abstract

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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