title: Towards an upper level ontology for molecular biology.
abstract: There is a growing need for the general-purpose description of the basic conceptual entities in the life sciences. Up until now, upper level models have mainly been purpose-driven, such as the GENIA ontology, originally devised as a vocabulary for corpus annotation. As an alternative,we here present BioTop, a description-logic-based top level ontology for molecular biology, which we consider as an ontologically conscious redesign of the GENIA ontology.
authors.affiliation: Freiburg University Hospital, Department of Medical Informatics, (http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/"schulz.htm)
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beisswanger
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wermter
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000145:classification*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled