Ontologies for bioinformatics

by Baclawski, Kenneth

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Title Statements

Full title :Ontologies for bioinformatics / Kenneth Baclawski, Tianhua Niu.

Summary

"The three parts of Ontologies for Bioinformatics ask, and answer, three pivotal questions: what ontologies are; how ontologies are used; and what ontologies could be (which focuses on how ontologies could be used for reasoning with uncertainty). The authors first introduce the notion of an ontology, from hierarchically organized ontologies to more general network organizations, and survey the best-known ontologies in biology and medicine. They show how to construct and use ontologies, classifying uses into three categories: querying, viewing, and transforming data to serve diverse purposes. Contrasting deductive, or Boolean, logic with inductive reasoning, they describe the goal of a synthesis that supports both styles of reasoning.

They discuss Bayesian networks as a way of expressing uncertainty, describe data fusion, and propose that the World Wide Web can be extended to support reasoning with uncertainty. They call this inductive reasoning web the Bayesian web."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 424 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262025914, 9780262025911
oclc:ocm57625716
LC Classification:QH324.2
Dewey Decimal:572.8/0285

Subjects

bio-informatica Bio-informatique -- Méthodologie Bioinformatics -- Methodology Bioinformatik Computational Biology -- methods Methodologie Ontologie Ontologieën (informatiewetenschap) Ontologier (datavetenskap)