GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

Robert Hoehndorf; Frank Loebe; Roberto Poli; Heinrich Herre; Janet Kelso

doi:10.3233/AO-2008-0055

GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

Robert Hoehndorf, Frank Loebe, Roberto Poli, Heinrich Herre, Janet Kelso

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	219-227
Number of pages	9
Journal	Applied Ontology
Volume	3
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-2008-0055
Publication status	Published - 01 Dec 2008

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