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UniPath: A Knowledge Representation System for Biopathways  

이민수 (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터학과)
박승수 (이화여자대학교 컴퓨터학)
강성희 (명지대학교 교육학습개발원)
Abstract
Recently, the information processing of ever increasing bio-related data is becoming a very important issue. One of the main sources of these bio-data comes with the form of biopathways, which includes molecular transactions and processes that are part of biochemical systems. The information represented by biopathways includes various organic relations among its components. However, most of the current systems to represent biopathways have been initially developed without computer processing in mind, and hence suffer from inconsistencies and ambiguities. In this paper, we propose an improved notation, called UniPath, for clear and systematic representation of biopathways. The proposed system is designed to provide a unified representation of metabolic and regulatory pathways. We also designed and implemented a graphic editor for UniPath to draw biopathwavs map according to the proposed notation. The graphic editor is designed so that biopathway data can be easily transformed into XML format.
Keywords
Biopathways; XML; Biopathways; Metabolic Pathway; Regulatory Pathway; Knowledge Representation; XML;
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