Abstract
The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemented in two separate components, each of which adheres to OWL-DL. These can be used independently with efficient DL reasoners, but they will be most effective when used together, which necessitates working with an OWL-Full ontology. The ontology is freely available from our website at: http://bioonto.de/pmwiki.php/Main/GFO-Bio.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 219-227 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Applied Ontology |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Biomedical ontology
- Categories
- Core ontology
- Default knowledge
- General formal ontology
- Levels of reality
- Ontology integration
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language