Transforming semi-structured life science diagrams into meaningful domain ontologies with DiDOn

C Maria Keet1

  • 1School of Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, 4000 Durban, South Africa. keet@ukzn.ac.za

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