Talking biology in logic, and back

  • Authors:
  • Hasan Jamil

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University

  • Venue:
  • KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

While computation of biological information takes center stage in today's research, knowledge-based query processing in biological databases has not gained much attention. The complex relationship among biological entities, and the numerous possibilities make it extremely difficult for a user to query data repositories in traditional ways since the information users seek are often not stored directly as extents. Thus, to meaningfully query such repositories, users often write complex applications to compute the needed response based on universal knowledge, or user specific hypothesis. In this paper, we propose a new data model based on object-oriented deductive databases and ontological concepts to allow knowledge-based querying. We propose a new query language called ConLog (for Concept Logic) in the direction of the acclaimed F-Logic and show that ConLog is able to express biological information and support queries in intuitive and user specific ways.