Artificial Intelligence federates numerous scientific fields in the aim of developing machines
able to assist human operators performing complex treatments---most of which demand high …

Ontologies are widely adopted in the biomedical domain to characterize various resources
(eg diseases, drugs, scientific publications) with non-ambiguous meanings. By exploiting the …

Semantic measures are widely used today to estimate the strength of the semantic
relationship between elements of various types: units of language (eg, words, sentences …

Autophagy is a complex cellular process having multiple roles, depending on tissue,
physiological, or pathological conditions. Major post-translational regulators of autophagy …

Motivation: Compared with sequence and structure similarity, functional similarity is more
informative for understanding the biological roles and functions of genes. Many important …

The research and development of metallic materials are playing an important role in today's
society, and in the meanwhile lots of metallic materials knowledge is generated and …

There is a prominent trend to augment and improve the formality of biomedical ontologies.
For example, this is shown by the current effort on adding description logic axioms, such as …

Background The analysis of gene annotations referencing back to Gene Ontology plays an
important role in the interpretation of high-throughput experiments results. This analysis …

Sequence similarity is a commonly used measure to compare proteins. With the increasing
use of ontologies, semantic (function) similarity is getting importance. The correlation …

Background Genetic and genomic data analyses are outputting large sets of genes.
Functional comparison of these gene sets is a key part of the analysis, as it identifies their …