Biological Ontologies and Semantic Biology

• Main Author: John Hancock (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Semantic Web; data representation; data analysis; ontologies; semantic biology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

As the amount of biological information and its diversity accumulates massively there is a critical need to facilitate the integration of this data to allow new and unexpected conclusions to be drawn from it. The Semantic Web is a new wave of web- based technologies that allows the linking of data b...