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A Quality Evaluation Framework for Bio-Ontologies

Jesualdo Tomas Fernandez-Breis¹, Mikel Egaña Aranguren² & Robert Stevens²

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1. Universidad de Murcia
2. University of Manchester

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Received 27 July 2009 20:33 UTC; Posted 28 July 2009

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Bioinformatics

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• ontology engineering
• bioinformatics
• ontology evaluation

Abstract:

Over the past few years the number of bio-ontologies has rapidly increased. The evaluation of ontologies has long been a problematic issue. The growing number of ontologies makes the need for a strategy for evaluating quality more urgent. We propose a framework for evaluating the quality of bio-ontologies. This framework is inspired by a well-known software quality standard, which has been adapted to the needs of ontology evaluation. An example of how to use the framework, comparing two versions of the Open Biomedical Ontologies’ Cell Type Ontology, is included as an illustration.

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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

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Fernandez-Breis, Jesualdo Tomas, Egaña Aranguren, Mikel, and Stevens, Robert. A Quality Evaluation Framework for Bio-Ontologies. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3479.1> (2009)

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