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Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: *OBO and the Semantic Web
Author(s) -
John Rose
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2009.3527.1
Subject(s) - computer science , social semantic web , semantic web , world wide web , semantic web stack , semantic analytics , meaning (existential) , semantic search , the internet , information retrieval , psychology , psychotherapist
The tools developed to work with an expanding number of biomedical ontologies are all directed “inward,” back toward the scientists. The Semantic Web is an effort to assign meaning to data available on the internet resulting in a universal platform of knowledge exchange. For the Open Biomedical Ontologies to become a part of the Semantic Web, a more “outward-looking” tool is required. A prototype, AmiGA, based on 21 ontologies with over 600,000 terms, has been constructed.

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