Current societies undergo a transformation into information societies.“Digitialization” is
progressing in every aspect of life, including health care. Handling the increasing flow of …

Ontology is no longer a mere research topic, but its relevance has been recognized in
several practical fields. Current applications areas include natural language translation, e …

The information explosion in biology makes it difficult for researchers to stay abreast of
current biomedical knowledge and to make sense of the massive amounts of online …

Objectives: Biomedical ontologies exist to serve integration of clinical and experimental
data, and it is critical to their success that they be put to widespread use in the annotation of …

An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from
biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications …

In biomedical informatics, ontologies are considered a key technology for annotating,
retrieving and sharing the huge volume of publicly available data. Due to the increasing …

It is now widely acknowledged that ontologies can make a significant contribution to the
design and implementation of information systems in the medical field. The aim of this book …

Ontologies are now pervasive in biomedicine, where they serve as a means to standardize
terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to …

The goal of the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry initiative is to create and
maintain an evolving collection of non-overlapping interoperable ontologies that will offer …

Objectives To provide typical examples of biomedical ontologies in action, emphasizing the
role played by biomedical ontologies in knowledge management, data integration and …