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Ontologies for Bioinformatics kenneth baclawski tianhua niu ...

Ontologies for Bioinformatics ...

Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner, and Michael Waterman, editors Computational molecular biology is a new discipline, bringing togeth ...

Ontologies for Bioinformatics Kenneth Baclawski Tianhua Niu The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England ...

© 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any elec ...

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I Introduction to Ontologies Preface xi 1 Hierarchies and Relationships 1.1 Traditional Record Structures 1.2 The eXtensible Ma ...

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Preface With recent advances in biotechnology spurred by the Human Genome Proj- ect, tremendous amounts of sequence, gene, prote ...

xii Preface Our purpose in writing this book is to provide an introductory, yet in- depth analysis of ontologies and ontology la ...

Preface xiii popular formalism that shows great promise as a means of expressing uncer- tainty. One important activity of scienc ...

xiv Preface The URI for this book isontobio.org, and this URI is also the URL of the website for the book. Because URIs are cons ...

PART I Introduction to Ontologies ...

2 Recent technological advances have resulted in an onslaught of biological information that is accessible online. In the postge ...

1 Hierarchies and Relationships 1.1 Traditional Record Structures One of the most common ways to represent information with comp ...

4 1 Hierarchies and Relationships obesity Obesity (30.0 <= BMI) ovrwt Overweight (25 <= BMI < 30) Height Height (inches ...

1.2 The eXtensible Markup Language 5 Summary A flat file is a collection of records. A record consists of fields. Each record i ...