How do you solve the age-old data integration issue? We addressed this in one of the first articles we wrote for this column back in 2016. It was a time when key terms and trends that dominate today's ...

Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than with self-evident ...

An ontological representation of the entities relevant to biological research is urgently needed. The cell ontology developed by Bard and colleagues (CL) (Bard et al. 2005) makes a significant ...