Background: Keyword matching or ID matching is the most common searching method in a large database of protein-protein interactions. They are purely syntactic methods, and retriev...
While the Web makes an increasing number of ontologies widely available for applications, how to discover ontologies becomes a more challenging issue. Existing approaches are mainl...
We present a query processing procedure for conjunctive queries in distributed ontology systems where a large ontology is divided into ontology fragments that are later distributed...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
The Gene Ontology (GO) vocabulary has been extensively explored to analyze the functions of coexpressed genes. However, despite its extended use in Biology and Medical Sciences, t...