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Translating the Foundational Model of Anatomy into ØWL\

, and . Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 6 (2): 133 - 136 (2008)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2007.12.001

Abstract

The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) represents the result of manual and disciplined modeling of the structural organization of the human body. It is a tremendous resource in bioinformatics that facilitates sharing of information among applications that use anatomy knowledge. The \FMA\ was developed in Protégé and the Protégé frames language is the canonical representation language for the FMA. We present a translation of the original Protégé frame representation of the \FMA\ into OWL. Our effort is complementary to the earlier efforts to represent \FMA\ in ØWL\ and is focused on two main goals: (1) representing only the information that is explicitly present in the frames representation of the \FMA\ or that can be directly inferred from the semantics of Protégé frames; (2) representing all the information that is present in the frames representation of the FMA, thus producing an ØWL\ representation for the complete FMA. Our complete representation of the \FMA\ in ØWL\ consists of two components: an ØWL\ \DL\ component that contains the \FMA\ constructs that are compatible with ØWL\ DL; and an ØWL\ Full component that imports the ØWL\ \DL\ component and adds the \FMA\ constructs that ØWL\ \DL\ does not allow.

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