Basic Formal Ontology for bioinformatics
Barry Smith, Anand Kumar, Thomas Bittner · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2005
Two senses of ‘ontology ’ can be distinguished in the current literature. First is the sense favored by information scientists, who view ontologies as software implementations designed to capture in some formal way the consensus conceptualization shared by those working on information systems or databases in a given domain. [Gruber 1993] Second is