War of Ontology Worlds: Mathematics, Computer Code, or Esperanto?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Rzhetsky, Andrey ^a,b,c   Evans, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES; COMPUTER CODES; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; KNOWLEDGE-REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY'S; STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE; SUBFIELDS;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW; THEORY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84856142067     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002191     Document Type: Review

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