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List of contents
Basic Concepts: Ontologies and Applications of Ontologies in Biomedicine. Mathematical Logic and Inference. Probability Theory and Statistics for Bio-Ontologies. Ontology Languages. Bio-Ontologies: The Gene Ontology. Upper-Level Ontologies. A Selective Survey of Bio-Ontologies. Graph Algorithms for Bio-Ontologies: Overrepresentation Analysis. Model-Based Approaches to GO Analysis. Semantic Similarity. Frequency-Aware Bayesian Network Searches in Attribute Ontologies. Inference in Ontologies: Inference in the Gene Ontology. RDFS Semantics and Inference. Inference in OWL Ontologies. Algorithmic Foundations of Computational Inference. SPARQL. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
About the author
Peter N. Robinson is a research scientist and leader of the Computational Biology Group in the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Dr. Robinson completed his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an internship at Yale University. He also studied mathematics and computer science at Columbia University. His research interests involve the use of mathematical and bioinformatics models to understand biology and hereditary disease.
Sebastian Bauer is a research assistant in the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He earned a degree in computer science from the Technical University of Ilmenau. His research interests include mathematical modeling, discrete algorithms, theoretical computer science, software engineering, and the applications of these fields to medicine and biology.
Summary
Exploring the computational background of ontologies, this self-contained text helps readers understand ontological algorithms and their applications. It describes a host of bio-ontologies, including Gene Ontology and Human Phenotype Ontology. The authors cover graph and inference algorithms and explain how these algorithms are used in biologica
