Towards refactoring the Molecular Function Ontology with a UML profile for function modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gene Ontology (GO) is the largest resource for cataloging gene products. This resource grows steadily and, naturally, this growth raises issues regarding the structure of the ontology. Moreover, modeling and refactoring large ontologies such as GO is generally far from being simple, as a whole as well as when focusing on certain aspects or fragments. It seems that human-friendly graphical modeling languages such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) could be helpful in connection with these tasks.

Results

We investigate the use of UML for making the structural organization of the Molecular Function Ontology (MFO), a sub-ontology of GO, more explicit. More precisely, we present a UML dialect, called the Function Modeling Language (FueL), which is suited for captur

SUBMITTER: Burek P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628467 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature