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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
Diagrammatic representations for modelling biological knowledge
1Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, UK. rcp@csc.liv.ac.uk
Abstract:
The contemporary research and development context in multidisciplinary biology has a serious requirement for integrating knowledge from disparate sources, and facilitating much-needed inter- and intra-disciplinary dialogue. A multiplicity of models arises when pluralistic approaches to modelling are followed, and also when there is not only a requirement to model systems and data, but also knowledge of systems and data. The challenges of addressing this multiplicity do not only include articulating the structure of complex systems, but also placing modelling within the framework of a process as well as a product. The graph representations presented here facilitate dialogue, modelling, clarification and specification of concepts, and the sharing of terms. This paper explores relationships between collections of graph representations. It is hoped that in future, when readers look at a node or a process in a graph, they will have a much deeper appreciation of relationships and context.
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