title: Applying a biomedical top-level ontology to encode biological taxa.
abstract: Classifying biological entities in terms of species and taxa is an important endeavor in biology. But even though many statements within current biomedical ontologies are indeed taxon-dependent, no standard way exists to properly introduce taxon or species information into current ontological architectures. Therefore we discuss various practices to represent such information by applying a biomedical top-level ontology combined with other standard approaches like description logics or the OBO Foundry.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boeker
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stenzhorn
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001695:Biology / Q000145:classification* / Q000379:methods*; D002965:Classification / Q000379:methods*; D004014:Dictionaries as Topic; D005858:Germany; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled