Metarel: an Ontology to support the inferencing of Semantic Web relations within Biomedical Ontologies
Correspondence: (Login to view email address)
- Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Belgium
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Document Type:
- Manuscript
- Date:
- Received 06 August 2009 11:55 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
- Subjects:
- Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
- Abstract:
While OWL, the Web Ontology Language, is often regarded as the preferred language for Knowledge Representation in the world of the Semantic Web, the potential of direct representation in RDF, the Resource Description Framework, is underestimated. Here we show how ontologies adequately represented in RDF could be semantically enriched with SPARUL. To deal with the semantics of relations we created Metarel, a meta-ontology for relations. The utility of the approach is demonstrated by an application on Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) RDF graphs in the RDF Knowledge Base BioGateway. We show that Metarel can facilitate inferencing in BioGateway, which allows for queries that are otherwise not possible. Metarel is available on http://www.metarel.org.
- Collection:
- International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
Discussion
- Votes:
-
2 votes
- Comments:
-
0 comments
- (Login to share with a colleague)
Additional information
- License:
- This document is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
- How to cite this document:
-
Blondé, Ward, Antezana, Erick, De Baets, Bernard, Mironov, Vladimir, and Kuiper, Martin. Metarel: an Ontology to support the inferencing of Semantic Web relations within Biomedical Ontologies. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3562.1> (2009)
- Version info:
-
Other versions of this document in Nature Precedings
None.
Other versions of this document elsewhere on the web
None known.
