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Ontologies in bioinformatics and systems biology. (English) Zbl 1090.92001

Dubitzky, Werner (ed.) et al., Artificial intelligence methods and tools for systems biology. Dordrecht: Springer (ISBN 1-4020-2959-4/pbk). Computational Biology Series 5, 129-145 (2004).
Summary: Ontologies are being used in bioinformatics and systems biology, among others, for communication between people and organizations, as the basis for interoperability between systems, and as query models and indexes to repositories of information. We give a background of the area and provide a state of the art overview. We present different possible definitions of ontology, examples of bio-ontologies and their use, formalisms that can be used to represent ontologies as well as tools that support the different stages in the life cycle of an ontology.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1058.92004].

MSC:

92B05 General biology and biomathematics
68U99 Computing methodologies and applications

Software:

FatiGO; OilEd
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