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1: 60-73, 2002.
BAO, A biological
and chemical ontology for information integration.
Zina Ben Miled
l* Yue W. Webster1 Nianhua Li2
Omran Bukhres2 Arun
K. Nayar3 Jesse Martin3 Robert Oppelt3
1 Electrical Engineering Department,
ABSTRACT
BAO, A Biological and Chemical Ontology For Information
Integration Miled ZB, Webster YW Nianhua L, Bukhres O, Nayar AK, Martin J, Oppelt R,
Online J Bioinformatics, 1:60-73, 2002. BAO (BACIIS Ontology) is a domain
ontology for BACIS (Biological And Chemical Information Integration System) -
The main goals of BAO are: 1) to guide users in creating efficient queries, 2)
to facilitate resolution of the variabilities among various data formats and
data sources, and 3) to facilitate the integration of biological and chemical
data web databases. In this paper, a three dimensional
biochemical ontology, BAO is proposed following a well defined set of design
and evaluation criteria. Its structure is more expressive, flexible and
extendible than the traditional structures. The ontology is validated through
its use to express comprehensive biological and chemical concepts. Furthermore,
the advantages of the proposed design are addressed through a detailed
comparison with the traditional approach. The ontology described in this paper
is implemented using Powerloom. However, the same
architecture can be implemented using other languages.
KEYWORDS: Ontology, Biology, Chemistry, integration, databases, interoperability
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