title: CelOWS: an ontology based framework for the provision of semantic web services related to biological models.
abstract: The amount of information generated by biological research has lead to an intensive use of models. Mathematical and computational modeling needs accurate description to share, reuse and simulate models as formulated by original authors. In this paper, we introduce the Cell Component Ontology (CelO), expressed in OWL-DL. This ontology captures both the structure of a cell model and the properties of functional components. We use this ontology in a Web project (CelOWS) to describe, query and compose CellML models, using semantic web services. It aims to improve reuse and composition of existent components and allow semantic validation of new models.
authors.affiliation: Master Program in Computational Modeling, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ely Edison
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Palazzi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003201:Computers; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software