A rule-based ontological framework for the classification of molecules.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A variety of key activities within life sciences research involves integrating and intelligently managing large amounts of biochemical information. Semantic technologies provide an intuitive way to organise and sift through these rapidly growing datasets via the design and maintenance of ontology-supported knowledge bases. To this end, OWL-a W3C standard declarative language- has been extensively used in the deployment of biochemical ontologies that can be conveniently organised using the classification facilities of OWL-based tools. One of the most established ontologies for the chemical domain is ChEBI, an open-access dictionary of molecular entities that supplies high quality annotation and taxonomical information for biologically relevant compounds. However, ChEBI is

SUBMITTER: Magka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4040517 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature