War of ontology worlds: mathematics, computer code, or Esperanto?

The use of structured knowledge representations-ontologies and terminologies-has become standard in biomedicine. Definitions of ontologies vary widely, as do the values and philosophies that underlie them. In seeking to make these views explicit, we conducted and summarized interviews with a dozen l...

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Main Authors: Andrey Rzhetsky, James A Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3182873?pdf=render