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Ontologies


Ontologies
Towards interoperability between anatomy and phenotype ontologies
Robert Hoehndorf,Janet Kelso, Frank Loebe, Heinrich Herre
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Achieving interoperability between biomedical ontologies is a highly desired state of affairs. We identify a major problem for the interoperability between biomedical ontologies. The common use of anatomy ontologies together with phenotype ontologies may lead to inconsistencies. We provide a solution to this problem through the use of an extended logical framework for representing ontologies.

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