Towards an upper level ontology for molecular biology.
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.
Schulz
Stefan
S
Freiburg University Hospital, Department of Medical Informatics, (http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/"schulz.htm)
Beisswanger
Elena
E
Wermter
Joachim
J
Hahn
Udo
U
D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000145:classification*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled