part-of relations in anatomy ontologies: A proposal for RDFS and OWL formalisations
(2004) part-of relations in anatomy ontologies: A proposal for RDFS and OWL formalisations. In Altman, Dr Russ, Eds. Proceedings Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 9, pages pp. 166-177, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
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Part-of relations are central to anatomy. However, the definition, formalisation and use of part-of in anatomy ontologies is problematic. This paper surveys existing formal approaches, as well as the use of part-of in the Open Biological Ontologies (OBO) anatomies of model species. Based on this analysis, we propose a minimal ontology for anatomy which is expressed in the Semantic Web languages RDFS and OWL-Full. The paper concludes with a description of the context of this work in capturing cross-species tissue homologies and analogies.
| Keywords: | ontology, part-whole, bioinformatics, anatomy |
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| Subjects: | AKT Challenges > Knowledge modelling |
| ID Code: | 356 |
| Deposited By: | Aitken, Dr S |
| Deposited On: | 08 July 2004 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www-smi.stanford.edu/projects/helix/psb04/aitken.pdf |
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