Short introduction to Biological Ontologies
Toni Hermoso Pulido
Bioinformatics Core Facility
Centre for Genomic Regulation (BCN)
Ontology
Being
Taxonomy
Definition
Relationship
History
Metaphysics
Artificial Intelligence
Tom Gruber (definition 1990s)
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3250663/Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg)
Basis: Triple
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3251262/SubjectPredicateObject-GraphRDF.svg.png)
A dog is a mammal
Concepts
Classes
Instances
Generalisations, concepts
Objects, individuals
Concepts
Attributes
Relations
Properties, adjectives
Interaction between classes/instances
Attributes
- name
- description
- label
- ...
Common ones
Attributes used in relations
- is_a
- part_of
- instance_of
- sameAs
- subclassOf
- ...
Common ones
Other ones
- regulates
- has_part (inverse)
- ...
Vocabularies
(aka Ontologies, schemas, etc.)
- rdf/rdfs (W3C)
- dc (Dublin Core)
- foaf (Friend of a Friend)
- schema.org
- Gene Ontology (3 parallel ones)
- Sequence Ontology
Standardisation and reuse of classes and properties
Examples:
Creation of ontologies
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3254137/wine-ontology.gif)
Semantic Web
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3250765/Semantic_web_stack.svg.png)
Linked (Open) Data
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3250712/LOD_Cloud_2014.svg.png)
RDF
(Resource Description Framework)
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3251280/RDF_example.svg.png)
RDF Serialisation formats
- RDF/XML
- Turtle
- JSON-LD
- etc.
Ontology standards
- OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies, before Open Biological Ontologies - OBO Foundry)
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3251309/Bosch__Hieronymus_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights__central_panel_-_Detail_Owl_with_boy.jpg)
SPARQL
Examples:
Ontologies as graphs
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3251324/Types_of_graphs_in_biology.png)
Reasoning in graphs
Example: Gene Ontology
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3254190/diag-trans-partof-isa.gif)
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3254203/diag-regulates-pos-neg-eg.gif)
Biological Ontologies Resources
Applications
BioPortal
Applications
Gene Ontology
Challenge: Need of more Semantic tagging!
![](https://media.slid.es/uploads/76302/images/3251191/ontologies-lifescience.png)
Questions?
Short introduction to Biological Ontologies Toni Hermoso Pulido Bioinformatics Core Facility Centre for Genomic Regulation (BCN) https://biocore.crg.eu
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