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Editorial: biological ontologies and semantic biology
The Special Topic in Biological Ontologies and Semantic Biology brings together papers in this broad area—which spans computer science, computational biology and bioinformatics—providing a platform for strengthening what is still a new and underappreciated area of research.
Abstract
As the amount of biological data and its diversity accumulates massively there is a critical need to facilitate the integration of this data to allow new and unexpected conclusions to be drawn from it. The Semantic Web comprises web-based technologies that allow linking of data between diverse data sets. Semantic Biology is the application of semantic web technology in the biological domain (including medical and health informatics). The Special Topic in Biological Ontologies and Semantic Biology brings together papers in this broad area—which spans computer science, computational biology and bioinformatics—providing a platform for strengthening what is still a new and underappreciated area of research.