A new paper entitled "Semi-automated ontology generation within OBO-Edit" has just appeared in the journal Bioinformatics [1]. The paper describes a system called 'DOG4DAG', which supports the creation and extension of OBO ontologies by semi- automatically generating terms, definitions and parent-child relations from text in PubMed, the web and PDF repositories.
Submitted by Barry Smith on November 12, 2009 - 12:47
At the IBCO there were a number of talks of interest to Phenoscapers, including one from the BGEE group on Homolonto and Chris Mungall’s on GO cross products and Uberon. Read more.See also here.
Submitted by Barry Smith on November 9, 2009 - 16:53
It is not only in the biomedical domain that ontologies are increasingly being used to advance data information and analysis. Similar developments can be witnessed in many other domains, for example in the military domain of what is called 'C2' or 'Command and Control', which requires agile information sharing with an increasingly wide variety of military and non-military partners. This paper describes an initiative to develop a C2 domain ontology in order to improve C2 data and service integration. It provides an overview of ontology, examples of existing ontologies (including biomedical ontologies), and key C2 areas of potential application.Click here to read the paper.
Submitted by Barry Smith on November 9, 2009 - 12:51
I would like to take this opportunity to describe the type of work that the Semantic Technologies Group in Statistical and Quantitative Sciences has been involved with over the past five or so years. Since most SQS and DDS members are unfamiliar with this area, this letter will be a bit longer than is customary.We start with a brief history lesson.
