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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
An ontology for bioinformatics applications
P G Baker1, C A Goble, S Bechhofer
1School of Biological Sciences and Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. tambis@cs.man.ac.uk
Motivation:
An ontology of biological terminology provides a model of biological concepts that can be used to form a semantic framework for many data storage, retrieval and analysis tasks. Such a semantic framework could be used to underpin a range of important bioinformatics tasks, such as the querying of heterogeneous bioinformatics sources or the systematic annotation of experimental results.
Results:
This paper provides an overview of an ontology [the Transparent Access to Multiple Biological Information Sources (TAMBIS) ontology or TaO] that describes a wide range of bioinformatics concepts. The present paper describes the mechanisms used for delivering the ontology and discusses the ontology's design and organization, which are crucial for maintaining the coherence of a large collection of concepts and their relationships.
Availability:
The TAMBIS system, which uses a subset of the TaO described here, is accessible over the Web via http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/tambis (although in the first instance, we will use a password mechanism to limit the load on our server). The complete model is also available on the Web at the above URL.
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