19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06)
Oasis: A Mapping and Integration Framework for Biomedical Ontologies
Salt Lake City, Utah
June 22-June 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2517-1
Yu Qian, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ying Liu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
More and more ontologies are emerging across bioinformatics domains to represent and define domain knowledge, such as gene ontology, anatomy ontology and disease ontology. To integrate these heterogeneous ontologies is becoming critically important for applications utilizing multiple ontologies. Because the entities described in the ontology often overlap with other entities in other ontologies, a mapping between two corresponding terms is required and becoming the key to the integration of heterogeneous ontologies. Based on a previously developed schema matching algorithm, this paper presents a framework for mapping and integration of heterogeneous biomedical ontologies. The framework detects possible false mappings intelligently and provides intuitive interfaces for users to customize mappings and for applications to integrate and access biomedical ontologies.
Citation:
Guanglei Song, Yu Qian, Ying Liu, Kang Zhang, "Oasis: A Mapping and Integration Framework for Biomedical Ontologies," cbms, pp.611-616, 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06), 2006