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- Title
Adding a little reality to building ontologies for biology.
- Authors
Lord, Phillip; Stevens, Robert
- Abstract
Many areas of biology are open to mathematical and computational modelling. The application of discrete, logical formalisms defines the field of biomedical ontologies. Ontologies have been put to many uses in bioinformatics. The most widespread is for description of entities about which data have been collected, allowing integration and analysis across multiple resources. There are now over 60 ontologies in active use, increasingly developed as large, international collaborations. There are, however, many opinions on how ontologies should be authored; that is, what is appropriate for representation. Recently, a common opinion has been the "realist" approach that places restrictions upon the style of modelling considered to be appropriate.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 9, pe12258
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0012258