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An OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids

Hong Sang Low¹, Christopher J. O. Baker², Alex Garcia³ & Markus R. Wenk¹

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1. National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. University of New Brunswick, Canada
3. University of Bremen, Germany

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Received 03 August 2009 14:02 UTC; Posted 03 August 2009

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Chemistry, Bioinformatics

Tags:

• ontology
• OWL-DL
• nomenclature
• lipids
• fatty acyl
• Mycolic acid

Abstract:

Lipids can be systematically classified according to functional properties, structural features, biochemical origin or biological system. However Lipid nomenclature has yet to become a robust research tool since no rigorous definitions exist for membership of specific lipid classes. Lipids need to be defined in a manner that is systematic yet at the same time semantically explicit. We report on the reuse of existing lipid nomenclature, ontology describing chemical structure and the extension of the OWL-DL Lipid Ontology to support the classification of lipid molecules. We applied definitions, DL-axioms, to describe lipids classes and illustrate suitability of the ontology for the classification of Fatty Acyl lipids and Mycolic acids.

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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

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Low, Hong Sang, Baker, Christopher, Garcia, Alex, and Wenk, Markus. An OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3542.1> (2009)

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