Relations in biomedical ontologies

Barry Smith^1,2 , Werner Ceusters³ , Bert Klagges⁴ , Jacob Köhler⁵ , Anand Kumar¹ , Jane Lomax⁶ , Chris Mungall⁷ , Fabian Neuhaus¹ , Alan L Rector⁸ and Cornelius Rosse⁹

¹  Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

²  Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

³  European Centre for Ontological Research, Saarland University, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

⁴  Department of Genetics, University of Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

⁵  Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK

⁶  European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK

⁷  HHMI, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94729, USA

⁸  Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

⁹  Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA