Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development
process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and …

New knowledge is produced at a continuously increasing speed, and the list of papers,
databases and other knowledge sources that a researcher in the life sciences needs to cope …

In scientific research, integration and synthesis require a common understanding of where
data come from, how much they can be trusted, and what they may be used for. To make …

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Motivation: Analysis and simulation of pathway data is of high importance in bioinformatics.
Standards for representation of information about pathways are necessary for integration …

Objective: Ontology in clinical domains is becoming a core research field in the realm of
medical informatics. The objective of this study is to explore the potential role of formal …

The exchange of semantically consistent service descriptions is an important issue for
flexible integration facilities for electronic commerce. Currently there is a lack of semantic …

We use the π-calculus to model the evolution of biochemical systems, taking advantage of
their similarities with global computation applications. First, we present a reduction …

Abstract Computational Biology or Bioinformatics has been defined as the application of
mathematical and Computer Science methods to solving problems in Molecular Biology that …

Ontologies are being used nowadays in many areas, including bioinformatics. One of the
issues in ontology research is the aligning and merging of ontologies. Tools have been …