Bioinformatics BI_E0003

title : Ontology-based integration for bioinformatics

author: Vaida Jakonien_e and Patrick Lambrix

year: 2005

place of pulbish : Department of Computer and Information Science Linkopings universitet, Linkoping, Sweden

abstract :

Information integration systems support re-
searchers in bioinformatics to retrieve data
from multiple biological data sources. In this
paper we argue that the current approaches
should be enhanced by ontological knowledge.
We identify the di erent types of ontologi-
cal knowledge that are available on the Web
and propose an approach to use this knowl-
edge to support integrated access to multi-
ple biological data sources. We also show
that current ontology-based integration ap-
proaches only cover parts of our approach