Experiences with Aber-OWL, an Ontology Repository with OWL EL Reasoning

Luke Slater, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-García, Keiron O’Shea, Paul N. Schofield, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Robert Hoehndorf

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Abstract

Ontologies are widely used in biology and biomedicine for the annotation and integration of data, and hundreds of ontologies have been developed for this purpose. These ontologies also constitute large volumes of formalized domain knowledge, usually expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Computational access to the knowledge contained within them relies on the use of automated reasoning. We have developed Aber-OWL, an ontology repository that provides OWL EL reasoning to answer queries and verify the consistency of ontologies. Aber-OWL also provides a set of web services which provide ontology-based access to scientific literature in Pubmed and Pubmed Central, SPARQL query expansion to retrieve linked data, and integration with Bio2RDF. Here, we report on our experiences with Aber-OWL and outline a roadmap for future development. Aber-OWL is freely available at http://aber-owl.net.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOntology Engineering
Subtitle of host publication12th International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL, OWLED 2015, co-located with ISWC 2015 Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 9–10, 2015 Revised Selected Papers
EditorsValentina Tamma, Mauro Dragoni, Rafael Gonçalves, Agnieszka Ławrynowicz
PublisherSpringer
Pages81-86
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-33245-1
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-33244-4
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 20 Apr 2016
EventOWLED 2015 12th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop - Bethlehem, United States
Duration: 9 Oct 201510 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume9557
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceOWLED 2015 12th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop
Abbreviated titleOWLED 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBethlehem
Period9/10/1510/10/15

Keywords

  • Biomedical ontology
  • Semantic web
  • Literature search
  • Semantic indexing
  • Query expansion

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