Experiences with Aber-OWL, an Ontology Repository with OWL EL Reasoning

Year: 2016

Venue: Ontology Engineering: 12th International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL, OWLED 2015, co-located with ISWC 2015, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 9-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Authors: Luke Slater, Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia, Keiron O'Shea, Paul N. Schofield, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Robert Hoehndorf

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33245-1_8

Abstract

Reasoning over biomedical ontologies using their OWL semantics has traditionally been a challenging task due to the high theoretical complexity of OWL-based automated reasoning. As a consequence, ontology repositories, as well as most other tools utilizing ontologies, either provide access to ontologies without use of automated reasoning, or limit the number of ontologies for which automated reasoning-based access is provided.