Relations in biomedical ontologies
Genome biology, 2005•Springer
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.
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.
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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