GFO-Bio: A biological core ontology

Authors:
Robert Hoehndorf;Frank Loebe;Roberto Poli;Heinrich Herre;Janet Kelso
Affiliations:
Dept. of Evol. Genetics, Max Planck Inst. for Evol. Anthropol., Leipzig and Res. Grp. Ontol. in Med. (Onto-Med), (IMISE), Univ. of Leipzig and Grad. Prog. Knowl. Rep., Dept. of Comp. Sci., Univ. o ...;Research Group Ontologies in Medicine (Onto-Med), Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Department of Computer Science, ...;Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany and University of Trento, Trento, Italy;Res. Grp. Ontologies in Medicine (Onto-Med), Inst. of Med. Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Dept. of Comp. Sci., Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, ...;Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Venue:
Applied Ontology - Towards a Metaontology for the Biomedical Domain
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The rapid increase in the number and use of biological ontologies necessitates developing systems for their integration. In this paper we present a core ontology for biology, and outline its application for integrating biological domain ontologies. Our ontology rests on a foundational ontology, which offers higher-order categories and a theory of levels of reality. The core ontology is implemented in two separate components, each of which adheres to OWL-DL. These can be used independently with efficient DL reasoners, but they will be most effective when used together, which necessitates working with an OWL-Full ontology. The ontology is freely available from our website at: http://bioonto.de/pmwiki.php/Main/GFO-Bio.