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An OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids

Hong-Sang Low1, Christopher J. O. Baker2, Alexander Garcia3 & Markus R. Wenk4

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  1. National University of Singapore
  2. University of New Brunswick
  3. University of Bremen
  4. National University of Singapore

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Received 12 August 2009 02:25 UTC; Posted 12 August 2009
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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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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY, 24 July 2009

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Low, Hong-Sang, Baker, Christopher , Garcia, Alexander, and Wenk, Markus. An OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3590.2> (2009)

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