The semantic web depends on the use of ontologies to let electronic systems interpret
contextual information. Optimally, the handling and access of ontologies should be …

The Semantic Web comprises web-based technologies that allow linking of data between
diverse data sets. Semantic Biology is the application of semantic web technology in the …

COBrA is a Java-based ontology editor for bio-ontologies that distinguishes itself from other
editors by supporting the linking of concepts between two ontologies, and providing …

Biological ontologies define the basic terms and relations in biological domains and are
being used among others, as community reference, as the basis for interoperability between …

This chapter provides an introduction to ontologies and their application in bioinformatics. It
presents and overview of the range of information artifacts that are denoted as ontologies in …

In recent years, biological ontologies have emerged as a means of representing and
organizing biological concepts, enabling biologists, bioinformaticians, and others to derive …

-Ontologies: Life scientists develop large ontologies to annotate genomic data. Examples
are GeneOntology, the open bioontologies OBO, the medical subject headings Mesh, Galen …

Ontologies are being used nowadays in many areas, including bioinformatics. To assist
users in developing and maintaining ontologies a number of tools have been developed. In …

Bioinformatics manages the information that has been gathered in databases since the
advent of the molecular biology technological revolution. The successful research is based …

The bio-ontology community falls into two camps: first we have biology domain experts, who
actually hold the knowledge we wish to capture in ontologies; second, we have ontology …