The explosion of the data both in the biomedical research and in the healthcare systems
demands urgent solutions. In particular, the research in omics sciences is moving from a …

In recent years, as a knowledge-based discipline, bioinformatics has been made more
computationally amenable. After its beginnings as a technology advocated by computer …

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Second
Edition, discusses the capabilities of Semantic Web modeling languages, such as RDFS …

As a unified model for describing biomedical knowledge, a biomedical ontology is of help to
solve the issues of data heterogeneity in different biomedical databases. However, these …

The paper presents a framework for introducing design patterns that facilitate or improve the
techniques used during ontology lifecycle. Some distinctions are drawn between kinds of …

Over the last 8 years, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has launched a major effort to
integrate molecular and clinical cancer-related information within a unified biomedical …

In this paper, we describe Swoop, a hypermedia inspired Ontology Browser and Editor
based on OWL, the recently standardized Web-oriented ontology language. After discussing …

The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to
each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, much of …

Ontologies are rapidly becoming popular in various research fields. There is a tendency
both in converting existing models into ontologies and in creating new models. In this work …

Recent years have seen rapid progress in the development of ontologies as semantic
models intended to capture and represent aspects of the real world. There is, however, great …