Relations in biomedical ontologies

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...

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Published inGenome biology Vol. 6; no. 5; p. R46
Main Authors Smith, Barry, Ceusters, Werner, Klagges, Bert, Köhler, Jacob, Kumar, Anand, Lomax, Jane, Mungall, Chris, Neuhaus, Fabian, Rector, Alan L, Rosse, Cornelius
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BioMed Central 01.01.2005
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Biomedical Research
Computational Biology - methods
Method
Terminology as Topic
Vocabulary, Controlled
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Summary: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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ISSN:1474-760X
1465-6906
1474-760X
1465-6914
DOI:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46