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 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.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2005-04-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46PMID 15892874PMCID 1175958
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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