[Previous: Standards as a shared structure for data] [Next: Data integration methodologies for systems biology] What are ontologies? 1 Introduction Controlled vocabularies, often just a list of agreed-upon terms, have been used to describe data since the early releases of the first biological databases such as EMBL [1] and Swiss-Prot [2]. As data handling in the life…
C. Trattner, C. Körner, and D. Helic. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, page 18:1--18:8. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)