Reasoning with bio-ontologies: Using relational closure rules to enable practical querying

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1562-1568

  Blondé, Ward ^a   Mironov, Vladimir ^b   Venkatesan, Aravind ^b   Antezana, Erick ^b   De Baets, Bernard ^a   Kuiper, Martin ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE BASES; LOGIC; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 79957814050     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr164     Document Type: Article

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