The rapid growth of online biomedical content has presented a notable challenge in
delivering timely and precise semantic annotations. Semantic annotations play a crucial role …

Building the Semantic Web requires the use of powerful tools to create, manage and extend
domain ontologies represented with Semantic Web languages. Though many tools have …

Ontologies in biology have proved successful in facilitating information access, eg by
allowing for conceptual browsing of documents or for augmenting information retrieval of …

Biomedical experts are facing challenges in keeping up with the vast amount of biomedical
knowledge published daily. With millions of citations added to databases like …

This chapter provides an introduction to ontologies and their application in bioinformatics. It
presents and overview of the range of information artifacts that are denoted as ontologies in …

Searching relevant information on the web is a main occupation of researchers nowadays.
Classical keyword-based search engines have limits. Inconsistent vocabulary used by …

Biological and medical researchers explore the mechanisms of living organisms and tend to
gain a better understanding of underlying fundamental biological processes of life. To tackle …

Background Current search engines are keyword-based. Semantic technologies promise a
next generation of semantic search engines, which will be able to answer questions. Current …

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 …

Abstract The Semantic Web technologies provide enhanced capabilities that allow data and
the meaning of the data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and …