TY - JOUR
T1 - GFO-Bio
T2 - A biological core ontology
AU - Hoehndorf, Robert
AU - Loebe, Frank
AU - Poli, Roberto
AU - Herre, Heinrich
AU - Kelso, Janet
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemented in two separate components, each of which adheres to OWL-DL. These can be used independently with efficient DL reasoners, but they will be most effective when used together, which necessitates working with an OWL-Full ontology. The ontology is freely available from our website at: http://bioonto.de/pmwiki.php/Main/GFO-Bio.
AB - The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemented in two separate components, each of which adheres to OWL-DL. These can be used independently with efficient DL reasoners, but they will be most effective when used together, which necessitates working with an OWL-Full ontology. The ontology is freely available from our website at: http://bioonto.de/pmwiki.php/Main/GFO-Bio.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/10973
U2 - 10.3233/AO-2008-0055
DO - 10.3233/AO-2008-0055
M3 - Article
SN - 1570-5838
VL - 3
SP - 219
EP - 227
JO - Applied Ontology
JF - Applied Ontology
IS - 4
ER -