Appl Ontol 2008 Jan;3(3):173-190
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States, ,
The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Thesaurus is a biomedical reference ontology. The NCI Thesaurus is represented using Description Logic, more specifically Ontylog, a Description logic implemented by Apelon, Inc. We are exploring the use of the DL species of the Web Ontology Language (OWL DL)-a W3C recommended standard for ontology representation-instead of Ontylog for representing the NCI Thesaurus. Read More