Biological Ontologies
Ontologies in one form or another have been a mainstay of biological and life sciences for decades (one could even say for centuries). In recent years, there has been an explosion of biological information, along with a corresponding interest in ontologies to help organize that information. In this “in the wild” study, we make no attempt to provide a comprehensive catalog of biological ontologies. We will instead concentrate by example on the modeling aspects of biomedical ontologies and their use in the Semantic Web.
Just as was the case with QUDT, the biological ontologies serve many purposes on the Semantic Web. First, they provide unambiguous references to biological concepts. This is particularly important when there ...
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