title: Relations in biomedical ontologies.
abstract: To enhance the treatment of relations in biomedical ontologies we advance a methodology for providing consistent and unambiguous formal definitions of the relational expressions used in such ontologies in a way designed to assist developers and users in avoiding errors in coding and annotation. The resulting Relation Ontology can promote interoperability of ontologies and support new types of automated reasoning about the spatial and temporal dimensions of biological and medical phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany. phismith@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ceusters
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Klagges
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Köhler
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lomax
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mungall
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Neuhaus
authors.forename: Alan L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rector
authors.forename: Cornelius
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosse
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled