Chapter title |
Primer on Ontologies
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
The Gene Ontology Handbook
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3741-7, 978-1-4939-3743-1
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Authors |
Janna Hastings, Hastings, Janna |
Editors |
Christophe Dessimoz, Nives Škunca |
Abstract |
As molecular biology has increasingly become a data-intensive discipline, ontologies have emerged as an essential computational tool to assist in the organisation, description and analysis of data. Ontologies describe and classify the entities of interest in a scientific domain in a computationally accessible fashion such that algorithms and tools can be developed around them. The technology that underlies ontologies has its roots in logic-based artificial intelligence, allowing for sophisticated automated inference and error detection. This chapter presents a general introduction to modern computational ontologies as they are used in biology. |
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