The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) for biomedical research and knowledge discovery

作者：Michel Dumontier, Christopher J. O. Baker, Joachim Baran, Alison Callahan, Leonid Chepelev, José Cruz-Toledo, Nicholas Ricky Del Rio, Geraint Duck, Laura I. Furlong, Nichealla Keath, Dana Klassen, Jamie P. McCusker, Núria Queralt-Rosiñach, Matthias Samwald, Natalia Villanueva‐Rosales, Mark D. Wilkinson, Robert Hoehndorf · 发表于：Journal of Biomedical Semantics · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.1186/2041-1480-5-14 · 被引用次数：277 · 研究领域：Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies、Semantic Web and Ontologies、Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) is an ontology to facilitate biomedical knowledge discovery. SIO features a simple upper level comprised of essential types and relations for the rich description of arbitrary (real, hypothesized, virtual, fictional) objects, processes and their attributes. SIO specifies simple design patterns to describe and associate qualities, capabilities, functions, quantities, and informational entities including textual, geometrical, and mathematical entities, and provides specific extensions in the domains of chemistry, biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics. SIO provides an ontological foundation for the Bio2RDF linked data for the life sciences project and is used for semantic integration and discovery for SADI-based semantic web services. SIO is freely available to all users under a creative commons by attribution license. See website for further information: http://sio.semanticscience.org.