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. 2006:2006:694-8.

Towards an upper level ontology for molecular biology

Stefan Schulz  1 , Elena Beisswanger, Joachim Wermter, Udo Hahn
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Towards an upper level ontology for molecular biology

Stefan Schulz et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006.

Abstract

There is a growing need for the general-purpose description of the basic conceptual entities in the life sciences. Up until now, upper level models have mainly been purpose-driven, such as the GENIA ontology, originally devised as a vocabulary for corpus annotation. As an alternative,we here present BioTop, a description-logic-based top level ontology for molecular biology, which we consider as an ontologically conscious redesign of the GENIA ontology.

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