Revealing functional and phenotypic consequences of molecular aberrations through ontologies

Abstract

An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization of a domain. Biomedical ontologies are a foundation of bioinformatics infrastructure and are used both to integrate data and to formally describe biological phenomena. I will show how to use ontologies to reveal consequences of molecular changes and aberration.

Brief Biography

Robert Hoehndorf is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at KAUST. His research focuses on the development and application of knowledge-based methods in biology and biomedicine.