GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

Applied Ontology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 219-227

  Hoehndorf, Robert ^a,b   Loebe, Frank ^b   Poli, Roberto ^a,c   Herre, Heinrich ^b   Kelso, Janet ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical ontology; Categories; Core ontology; Default knowledge; General formal ontology; Levels of reality; Ontology integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013580804     PISSN: 15705838     EISSN: 18758533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AO-2008-0055     Document Type: Article

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