In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, a...
Background: Biological data that are well-organized by an ontology, such as Gene Ontology, enables high-throughput availability of the semantic web. It can also be used to facilit...
James L. Chen, Yang Liu, Lee T. Sam, Jianrong Li, ...
Background: With the continuously increasing demands on knowledge- and data-management that databases have to meet, ontologies and the theories of granularity they use become more...
Background: Biomedical literature, e.g., MEDLINE, contains a wealth of knowledge regarding functions of proteins. Major recurring biological concepts within such text corpora repr...
Background: Ontologies and taxonomies are among the most important computational resources for molecular biology and bioinformatics. A series of recent papers has shown that the G...