Using AberOWL for fast and scalable reasoning over BioPortal ontologies

Year: 2016

Venue: Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Authors: Luke Slater, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Paul N. Schofield, Robert Hoehndorf

DOI: 10.1186/s13326-016-0090-0

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.