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Design and Implementation of a Graphical Bio-Ontology Management System based on OWL  

Kim Ki-Heon (전북대학교 전산통계학과)
Choi Jae-Hun (한국전자통신연구원)
Yang Jae-Dong (전북대학교전자정보공학부)
Park Cheon-Shu (한국전자통신연구원 지능형로봇연구단)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.6, 2005 , pp. 461-472 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we design and implement a graphical bio-ontology management system based on OWL(Web Ontology Language). It allows domain experts to easily manage sophisticated bio-ontologies in which biological knowledge is encoded. The knowledge can be seamlessly modeled into the ontology by well defined graphical notations, which capture most of subtle semantics inherently existing between biological terms. Our system provides a new construction mechanism, which can determine a considerable part of relationships between terms by their inheritance and inverse-inheritance. For keeping their semantics to be consistent, the mechanism supplies domain experts with information available from relationships being constructed or already constructed. The constructed ontology is basically formatted by OWL, which may benefit from its powerful semantic expressiveness. Additionally, it can be automatically translated into other standard languages without semantic loss, such as RDF/RDFS, DAML+OIL and so on. The main characteristics of our system is that it enables domain experts to delicately model the bio-ontology by the visualized construction mechanisms adopting well-defined graphical notations based on OWL.
Keywords
Ontology; OWL; Bioinformatics; Knowledge Representation;
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