OBML – Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences

OBML – Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences

The OBML 2010 workshop, held at the University of Mannheim on September 9-10, 2010, is the 2nd in a series of meetings organized by the Working Group "Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences" of the German Society of Computer Science (GI) and the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS). Integrating, processing and applying the rapidly expanding information ge...

Ontologies for the life sciences

Where humans can manipulate and integrate the information they receive in subtle and everchanging ways from context to context, computers need structured and context-free background information of a sort which ontologies can help to provide. A domain ontology captures the stable, highly general and commonly accepted core knowledge for an application domain. The domain at issue here is that of t...

Accessing and Manipulating Life-Sciences Ontologies Using Web Services

In this technology position paper, we propose to provide ontology access and manipulation functions as Web Services called Ontology Web Services (OWSes), and to describe their semantics, using OWL-S as an example ontology. We present an application context that already uses Semantic Web techniques. We show that Ontology Web Services are a good solution for bringing together resources from sever...

Desiderata for domain reference ontologies in biomedicine

Domain reference ontologies represent knowledge about a particular part of the world in a way that is independent from specific objectives, through a theory of the domain. An example of reference ontology in biomedical informatics is the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), an ontology of anatomy that covers the entire range of macroscopic, microscopic, and subcellular anatomy. The purpose of t...

Towards Desiderata for Provenance Ontologies in Biomedicine