Background: There is currently a gap between the rich and expressive collection of published biomedical ontologies, and the natural language expression of biomedical papers consumed on a daily basis by scientific researchers. The purpose of this paper is to provide an open, shareable structure for dynamic integration of biomedical domain ontologies with the scientific document, in the form of an Annotation Ontology (AO), thus closing this gap and enabling application of formal biomedical ontologies directly to the literature as it emerges.
The Annotation Ontology (AO) REF was designed to provide a shareable structure for semantic integration of biomedical domain ontologies with scientific documents.
An open annotation ontology for science on web 3.0
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Computer Science Medicine