The semantic web is envisioned as an evolving set of local ontologies that are gradually
linked together into a global knowledge network. Many such local “application” ontologies …

The semantic web remains in the early stages of development. It has not yet achieved the
goals envisioned by its founders as a pervasive web of distributed knowledge and …

Background Ontologies have become an essential asset in the bioinformatics toolbox and a
number of ontology access resources are now available, for example, the EBI Ontology …

This paper presents a graph-based method to weight medical concepts in documents for the
purposes of information retrieval. Medical concepts are extracted from free-text documents …

Under the appellation of “ontology” are found many different types of artifacts created and
used in different communities to represent entities and their relationships for purposes …

It is becoming impossible to contemplate successful bio-medical research without canonical
data structures. The biomedical computation community finds itself grappling with hundreds …

With the proliferation of heterogeneous health care data in the last three decades,
biomedical ontologies and controlled biomedical terminologies play a more and more …

The representation of medical data and knowledge is fundamental in the field of medical
informatics. Ontologies and related artifacts are important tools in knowledge representation …

An increasing and overwhelming amount of biomedical information is available in the
research literature mainly in the form of free-text. Biologists need tools that automate their …

Background The technological advances in the past decade have lead to massive progress
in the field of biotechnology. The documentation of the progress made exists in the form of …