Ontologies for Bioinformatics

by Kenneth Baclawski and Tianhua Niu

Ontologies as a critical framework for the vast amounts of data in the postgenomic era: an introduction to the basic concepts and applications of ontologies and ontology languages for the life sciences. Recent advances in biotechnology, spurred by the Human Genome Project, have resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of new data. Ontologies--computer-readable, precise formulations of concepts (and the relationship among them) in a given field--are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262025914
• ISBN13: 9780262025911
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher