Objectives To provide typical examples of biomedical ontologies in action, emphasizing the
role played by biomedical ontologies in knowledge management, data integration and …

This thesaurus-based search system uses automatic indexing, RDF-based querying, and
concept-based visualization of results to support exploration of large online document …

In this paper we present the BioNavigation system that allows scientists to express their
queries using an ontology representing the conceptual level of scientific classes and labeled …

The complex questions and analyses posed by biologists, as well as the diverse data
resources they develop, require the fusion of evidence from different, independently …

The Semantic Web can be conceived as an extension of the current Web where information
is given well-defined meaning. In this scenario ontologies are crucial since they provide …

Background There is currently a gap between the rich and expressive collection of
published biomedical ontologies, and the natural language expression of biomedical papers …

Advances in Semantic Web and Ontologies have pushed the role of semantics to a new
frontier: Semantic Composition of Web Services. A good example of such compositions is …

Background More than one million terms from biomedical ontologies and controlled
vocabularies are available through the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS). Although OLS …

Web ontologies provide shared concepts for describing domain entities and thus enable
semantic interoperability between applications. To facilitate concept sharing and ontology …

With the ever increasing size of scientific literature, finding relevant documents and
answering questions has become even more of a challenge. Recently, ontologies …