Towards semantic interoperability: finding and repairing hidden contradictions in biomedical ontologies

Abstract Background Ontologies are widely used throughout the biomedical domain. These ontologies formally represent the classes and relations assumed to exist within a domain. As scientific domains are deeply interlinked, so too are their representations. While individual ontologies can be tested f...

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Main Authors: Luke T. Slater, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Robert Hoehndorf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01336-2