Inferring ontology graph structures using OWL reasoning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ontologies are representations of a conceptualization of a domain. Traditionally, ontologies in biology were represented as directed acyclic graphs (DAG) which represent the backbone taxonomy and additional relations between classes. These graphs are widely exploited for data analysis in the form of ontology enrichment or computation of semantic similarity. More recently, ontologies are developed in a formal language such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and consist of a set of axioms through which classes are defined or constrained. While the taxonomy of an ontology can be inferred directly from the axioms of an ontology as one of the standard OWL reasoning tasks, creating general graph structures from OWL ontologies that exploit the ontologies' semantic content remai

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Garcia MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5756413 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature