Aber-OWL: a framework for ontology-based data access in biology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many ontologies have been developed in biology and these ontologies increasingly contain large volumes of formalized knowledge commonly expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Computational access to the knowledge contained within these ontologies relies on the use of automated reasoning.

Results

We have developed the Aber-OWL infrastructure that provides reasoning services for bio-ontologies. Aber-OWL consists of an ontology repository, a set of web services and web interfaces that enable ontology-based semantic access to biological data and literature. Aber-OWL is freely available at http://aber-owl.net .

Conclusions

Aber-OWL provides a framework for automatically accessing information that is annotated with ontologies or contains terms used to labe

SUBMITTER: Hoehndorf R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4384359 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature