Towards semantic interoperability: finding and repairing hidden contradictions in biomedical ontologies.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date: Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ontologies are widely used throughout the biomedical domain. These ontologies formally represent the classes and relations assumed to exist within a domain. As scientific domains are deeply interlinked, so too are their representations. While individual ontologies can be tested for consistency and coherency using automated reasoning methods, systematically combining ontologies of multiple domains together may reveal previously hidden contradictions.

Authors

  • Luke T Slater
    College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. l.slater.1@bham.ac.uk.
  • Georgios V Gkoutos
    Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; MRC Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), London, United Kingdom; NIHR Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  • Robert Hoehndorf
    Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 KAUST, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. robert.hoehndorf@kaust.edu.sa.

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