A semantic query interface for the OGO platform

  • Authors:
  • José Antonio Miñarro-Giménez;Mikel Egaña Aranguren;Francisco García-Sánchez;Jesualdo Tomás Fernádez-Breis

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ITBAM'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information technology in bio- and medical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the last years, a number of semantic biomedical systems have been developed to store biomedical knowledge in an accessible manner. However, their practical usage is limited, since they require expertise in semantic languages by the user, or, in the other hand, their query interfaces do not fully exploit the semantics of the knowledge represented. Such drawbacks were present in the OGO system, a resource that semantically integrates knowledge about orthologs and human genetic diseases, developed by our research group. In this paper, we present an extension of the OGO system for improving the process of designing advanced semantic queries. The query module requires the users to know and to manage only the OGO ontology, which represents the domain knowledge, simplifying the process of query building.