Background: Biomedical ontologies are being widely used to annotate biological data in a computer-accessible, consistent and well-defined manner. However, due to their size and co...
Catherine Beauheim, Farrell Wymore, Michael Nitzbe...
BioLingua is an interactive, web-based programming environment that enables biologists to analyze biological systems by combining knowledge and data through direct end-user progra...
J. P. Massar, Michael Travers, Jeff Elhai, Jeff Sh...
We develop a formal framework for modular ontologies by analysing four notions of conservative extensions and their applications in refining, re-using, merging, and segmenting ont...
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyasc...
We propose ontological blending as a new method for `creatively' combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating cate...
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, John A....
In this paper we present the basic requirements and initial design of a system which manages and facilitates changes to an OWL ontology in a multi-editor environment. This system u...
Timothy Redmond, Michael Smith, Nick Drummond, Tan...