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Relations in biomedical ontologies

Barry Smith*, Werner Ceusters, Bert Klagges, Jacob Köhler, Anand Kumar, Jane Lomax, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Alan L Rector and Cornelius Rosse

Genome Biology 2005, 6:R46 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r46

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A semantic web framework to integrate cancer omics data with biological knowledge

Matthew E Holford, James P McCusker, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Michael Krauthammer BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13(Suppl 1):S10 (25 January 2012)

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Populous: a tool for building OWL ontologies from templates

Simon Jupp, Matthew Horridge, Luigi Iannone, Julie Klein, Stuart Owen, Joost Schanstra, Katy Wolstencroft, Robert Stevens BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13(Suppl 1):S5 (25 January 2012)

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A unified framework for managing provenance information in translational research

Satya S. Sahoo, Vinh Nguyen, Olivier Bodenreider, Priti Parikh, Todd Minning, Amit P. Sheth BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:461 (29 November 2011)

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Unintended consequences of existential quantifications in biomedical ontologies

Martin Boeker, Ilinca Tudose, Janna Hastings, Daniel Schober, Stefan Schulz BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:456 (24 November 2011)

Almost a quarter of all existential restrictions in the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry contain assertions that do not properly describe the underlying biological reality, suggesting that a restriction to fewer, well-defined, relation types is needed.

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Brucellosis Ontology (IDOBRU) as an extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology

Yu Lin, Zuoshuang Xiang, Yongqun He Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:9 (31 October 2011)

The first reported bacterial infectious disease ontology, that provides a brucellosis knowledge-base and supports brucellosis data integration and automated reasoning.

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The representation of protein complexes in the Protein Ontology (PRO)

Carol J Bult, Harold J Drabkin, Alexei Evsikov, Darren Natale, Cecilia Arighi, Natalia Roberts, Alan Ruttenberg, Peter D'Eustachio, Barry Smith, Judith A Blake, Cathy Wu BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:371 (19 September 2011)

ProComp is a component of the Protein Ontology (PRO) database for implementing a logical and consistent representation of protein complexes, and facilitates robust annotation of variations in composition and function contexts within and between species

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GOMMA: a component-based infrastructure for managing and analyzing life science ontologies and their evolution

Toralf Kirsten, Anika Gross, Michael Hartung, Erhard Rahm Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2:6 (13 September 2011)

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The RICORDO approach to semantic interoperability for biomedical data and models: strategy, standards and solutions

Bernard de Bono, Robert Hoehndorf , Sarala Wimalaratne, George Gkoutos, Pierre Grenon BMC Research Notes 2011, 4:313 (30 August 2011)

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Integrating systems biology models and biomedical ontologies

Robert Hoehndorf, Michel Dumontier, John H Gennari, Sarala Wimalaratne, Bernard de Bono, Daniel L Cook, Georgios V Gkoutos BMC Systems Biology 2011, 5:124 (11 August 2011)

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Representing dispositions

Johannes Röhl, Ludger Jansen Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 4):S4 (9 August 2011)

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Grains, components and mixtures in biomedical ontologies

Ludger Jansen, Stefan Schulz Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 4):S2 (9 August 2011)

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How the gene ontology evolves

Sabina Leonelli, Alexander D Diehl, Karen R Christie, Midori A Harris, Jane Lomax BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:325 (5 August 2011)

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Integration and publication of heterogeneous text-mined relationships on the Semantic Web

Adrien Coulet, Yael Garten, Michel Dumontier, Russ B Altman, Mark A Musen, Nigam H Shah Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S10 (17 May 2011)

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Representation of research hypotheses

Larisa N Soldatova, Andrey Rzhetsky Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S9 (17 May 2011)

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Developing a kidney and urinary pathway knowledge base

Simon Jupp, Julie Klein, Joost Schanstra, Robert Stevens Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S7 (17 May 2011)

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Scalable representations of diseases in biomedical ontologies

Stefan Schulz, Kent Spackman, Andrew James, Cristian Cocos, Martin Boeker Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S6 (17 May 2011)

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Automating generation of textual class definitions from OWL to English

Robert Stevens, James Malone, Sandra Williams, Richard Power, Allan Third Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S5 (17 May 2011)

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An open annotation ontology for science on web 3.0

Paolo Ciccarese, Marco Ocana, Leyla Garcia Castro, Sudeshna Das, Tim Clark Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S4 (17 May 2011)

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The Translational Medicine Ontology and Knowledge Base: driving personalized medicine by bridging the gap between bench and bedside

Joanne S Luciano, Bosse Andersson, Colin Batchelor, Olivier Bodenreider, Tim Clark, Christine K Denney, Christopher Domarew, Thomas Gambet, Lee Harland, Anja Jentzsch, Vipul Kashyap, Peter Kos, Julia Kozlovsky, Timothy Lebo, Scott M Marshall, James P McCusker, Deborah L McGuinness, Chimezie Ogbuji, Elgar Pichler, Robert L Powers, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Matthias Samwald, Lynn Schriml, Peter J Tonellato, Patricia L Whetzel, Jun Zhao, Susie Stephens, Michel Dumontier Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 2):S1 (17 May 2011)

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Mapping between the OBO and OWL ontology languages

Syed Tirmizi, Stuart Aitken, Dilvan A Moreira, Chris Mungall, Juan Sequeda, Nigam H Shah, Daniel P Miranker Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 1):S3 (7 March 2011)

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Relations as patterns: bridging the gap between OBO and OWL

Robert Hoehndorf, Anika Oellrich, Michel Dumontier, Janet Kelso, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Heinrich Herre BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:441 (31 August 2010)

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OntoFox: web-based support for ontology reuse

Zuoshuang Xiang, Mélanie Courtot, Ryan R Brinkman, Alan Ruttenberg, Yongqun He BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:175 (22 June 2010)

OntoFox facilitates knowledge sharing by supporting extraction and reuse of user-defined subsets of terms from existing ontologies, enabling interoperability between projects through standardization of concepts and definitions.

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Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI

Ryan R Brinkman, Mélanie Courtot, Dirk Derom, Jennifer M Fostel, Yongqun He, Phillip Lord, James Malone, Helen Parkinson, Bjoern Peters, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alan Ruttenberg, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Larisa N Soldatova, Christian J Stoeckert, Jessica A Turner, Jie Zheng, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2010, 1(Suppl 1):S7 (22 June 2010)

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Establishing a distributed system for the simple representation and integration of diverse scientific assertions

Matthias Samwald, Holger Stenzhorn Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2010, 1(Suppl 1):S5 (22 June 2010)

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RKB: a Semantic Web knowledge base for RNA

Jose Cruz-Toledo, Michel Dumontier, Marc Parisien, François Major Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2010, 1(Suppl 1):S2 (22 June 2010)

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Saliva Ontology: An ontology-based framework for a Salivaomics Knowledge Base

Jiye Ai, Barry Smith, David T Wong BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:302 (3 June 2010)

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Applying the functional abnormality ontology pattern to anatomical functions

Robert Hoehndorf, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Janet Kelso Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2010, 1:4 (31 March 2010)

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Integrating phenotype ontologies across multiple species

Christopher J Mungall, Georgios V Gkoutos, Cynthia L Smith, Melissa A Haendel, Suzanna E Lewis, Michael Ashburner Genome Biology 2010, 11:R2 (8 January 2010)

A phenotypic ontology that can be used for the analysis of phenotype-genotype data across multiple species, paving the way for truly cross species translational research.

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BioGateway: a semantic systems biology tool for the life sciences

Erick Antezana, Ward Blondé, Mikel Egaña, Alistair Rutherford, Robert Stevens, Bernard De Baets, Vladimir Mironov, Martin Kuiper BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 10):S11 (1 October 2009)

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The Cell Cycle Ontology: an application ontology for the representation and integrated analysis of the cell cycle process

Erick Antezana, Mikel Egaña, Ward Blondé, Aitzol Illarramendi, Iñaki Bilbao, Bernard De Baets, Robert Stevens, Vladimir Mironov, Martin Kuiper Genome Biology 2009, 10:R58 (29 May 2009)

A software resource for the analysis of cell cycle related molecular networks.

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TGF-beta signaling proteins and the Protein Ontology

Cecilia N Arighi, Hongfang Liu, Darren A Natale, Winona C Barker, Harold Drabkin, Judith A Blake, Barry Smith, Cathy H Wu BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 5):S3 (6 May 2009)

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An improved ontological representation of dendritic cells as a paradigm for all cell types

Anna Masci, Cecilia N Arighi, Alexander D Diehl, Anne E Lieberman, Chris Mungall, Richard H Scheuermann, Barry Smith, Lindsay G Cowell BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:70 (25 February 2009)

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Formal representation of complex SNOMED CT expressions

Stefan Schulz, Kornél Markó, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8(Suppl 1):S9 (27 October 2008)

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Ontological analysis of SNOMED CT

Gergely Héja, György Surján, Péter Varga BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8(Suppl 1):S8 (27 October 2008)

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OntoDas – a tool for facilitating the construction of complex queries to the Gene Ontology

Kieran O'Neill, Alexander Garcia, Anita Schwegmann, Rafael C Jimenez, Dan Jacobson, Henning Hermjakob BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:437 (16 October 2008)

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Drug interaction prediction using ontology-driven hypothetical assertion framework for pathway generation followed by numerical simulation

Takeshi Arikuma, Sumi Yoshikawa, Ryuzo Azuma, Kentaro Watanabe, Kazumi Matsumura, Akihiko Konagaya BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 6):S11 (28 May 2008)

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Ontology Design Patterns for bio-ontologies: a case study on the Cell Cycle Ontology

Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Erick Antezana, Martin Kuiper, Robert Stevens BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 5):S1 (29 April 2008)

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RDFScape: Semantic Web meets Systems Biology

Andrea Splendiani BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 4):S6 (25 April 2008)

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Ontology-based, Tissue MicroArray oriented, image centered tissue bank

Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Andrea Caprera, Barbara Lazzari, Alessandra Stella, Luciano Milanesi BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 4):S4 (25 April 2008)

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An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum

Pascale Gaudet, Jeffery G Williams, Petra Fey, Rex L Chisholm BMC Genomics 2008, 9:130 (18 March 2008)

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Defining functional distances over Gene Ontology

Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:50 (25 January 2008)

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Corpus annotation for mining biomedical events from literature

Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Jun'ichi Tsujii BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:10 (8 January 2008)

A new semantic enrichment technique that highlights biomedical events in the literature has been used to produce a large, high-quality annotated corpus, which will be valuable for Natural Language Processing-based text mining.

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Framework for a Protein Ontology

Darren A Natale, Cecilia N Arighi, Winona C Barker, Judith Blake, Ti-Cheng Chang, Zhangzhi Hu, Hongfang Liu, Barry Smith, Cathy H Wu BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 9):S1 (27 November 2007)

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Simplified ontologies allowing comparison of developmental mammalian gene expression

Adele Kruger, Oliver Hofmann, Piero Carninci, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Winston Hide Genome Biology 2007, 8:R229 (25 October 2007)

The Developmental eVOC ontologies presented are simplified orthogonal ontologies describing the temporal and spatial distribution of developmental human and mouse anatomy.

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Representing default knowledge in biomedical ontologies: application to the integration of anatomy and phenotype ontologies

Robert Hoehndorf, Frank Loebe, Janet Kelso, Heinrich Herre BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:377 (9 October 2007)

The problem of interoperability of fixed anatomy ontologies with the more flexible phenotype ontologies can be solved by treating canonical information as the default that can be modified when more information is available.

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Spatial location and its relevance for terminological inferences in bio-ontologies

Stefan Schulz, Kornél Markó, Udo Hahn BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:134 (20 April 2007)

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Understanding and using the meaning of statements in a bio-ontology: recasting the Gene Ontology in OWL

Mikel Aranguren, Sean Bechhofer, Phillip Lord, Ulrike Sattler, Robert Stevens BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:57 (20 February 2007)

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A critical review of PASBio's argument structures for biomedical verbs

K Bretonnel Cohen, Lawrence Hunter BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7(Suppl 3):S5 (24 November 2006)

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The use of concept maps during knowledge elicitation in ontology development processes – the nutrigenomics use case

Alexander Castro, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Robert Stevens, Chris Taylor, Karim Nashar, Mark A Ragan, Susanna-Assunta Sansone BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:267 (25 May 2006)

A novel method for building biological ontologies introduces the use of concept maps during the knowledge acquisition phase to assist collaborative development and to formalize the methodology.

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Quality control for terms and definitions in ontologies and taxonomies

Jacob Köhler, Katherine Munn, Alexander Rüegg, Andre Skusa, Barry Smith BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:212 (19 April 2006)