The purpose of this book is to provide a definitive guide in the design and use of expressive bio-ontologies compatible with the rapidly evolving Semantic Web. While ontologies have long played a role in providing shared terminology for Health Care and the Life Sciences (HCLS), the Web Ontology Language (OWL) promises a new ear of collaborative, reusable and distributed knowledge bases capable of delivering unprecedented opportunities for biological knowledge creation and discovery. This book will cover the opportunities and challenges in building HCLS ontologies and review application state of the art and future opportunities.Bijan Parsia is a lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where he teaches on and does research in Description Logics, Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Language Design, Ontology Engineering and Explanation. He was the Ontology Area Editor of the Journalof Web Semantics from June 2005 until August 2006. He co-founded the popular workshop series, OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) which led to the foundation of a new OWL W3C Working Group to standardize a new version of OWL (OWL2). He is the primary author of the OWL Primer. Michel Dumontier is a professor of Bioinformatics at Carleton University in the Department of Biology and School of Computer Science. His research aims to develop a computational platform for personalized medicine, which involves biochemical knowledge representation and reasoning as well as developing efficient approaches in biochemical modeling and simulation. He is an invited expert to the W3C's Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, and is a member of the OWL W3C Working Group.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-50496-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 10/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés