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 …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

The biomedical literature can be seen as a large integrated, but unstructured data
repository. Extracting facts from literature and making them accessible is approached from …

Abstract An Introduction to Ontology Engineering is a free online textbook that provides an
overview of ontology engineering, including logics and automated reasoning, methods and …

Motivation: Ontologies and taxonomies have proven highly beneficial for biocuration. The
Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry alone lists over 90 ontologies mainly built with …

Background Ontology term labels can be ambiguous and have multiple senses. While this is
no problem for human annotators, it is a challenge to automated methods, which identify …

Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB)[1] is a series of workshops focused on
the most promising and innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools …

Bio-ontology development is a resource-consuming task despite the many open source
ontologies available for reuse. Various strategies and tools for bottom-up ontology …

Develo** ontologies to account for the complexity of biological systems requires the time
intensive collaboration of many participants with expertise in various fields. While each …

For decision makers and researchers working in a technical domain, understanding the
state of their area of interest is of the highest importance. Any given research field is …