Objective Ontologies are widely used in the biomedical domain. While many tools exist for
the edition, alignment or evaluation of ontologies, few solutions have been proposed for …

The range of publicly available biomedical data is enormous and is expanding fast. This
expansion means that researchers now face a hurdle to extracting the data they need from …

Background Many ontologies have been developed in biology and these ontologies
increasingly contain large volumes of formalized knowledge commonly expressed in the …

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 …

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

Background Ontologies are invaluable in the life sciences, but building and maintaining
ontologies often requires a challenging number of distinct tasks such as running automated …

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology Annotator is an ontology-based web service
for annotation of textual biomedical data with biomedical ontology concepts. The biomedical …

Background There is currently a gap between the rich and expressive collection of
published biomedical ontologies, and the natural language expression of biomedical papers …

Background Ontology development is a rapidly growing area of research, especially in the
life sciences domain. To promote collaboration and interoperability between different …

We present a novel reasoning procedure for Horn SHIQ ontologies–SHIQ ontologies that
can be translated to the Horn fragment of first-order logic. In contrast to traditional reasoning …