Enriching the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) to Improve its Suitability for Web Service Annotations

Abstract. With the increasing development and use of ontologies in the biomedical domain, opportunities for their utilization in applications and workflows are being created. In this paper, we discuss how the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) can be enriched to provide for annotation of Web services. The methodology includes designing ontology analysis diagrams for Web services and analyzing them to find the terms that need to be added to the ontology. The enriched ontology can then be used for annotating the Web services with the help of annotation tools like the one in the RadiantWeb tool-suite. Using annotated Web services to perform service discovery and make service suggestions provides a way to evaluate the validity of the annotations made and the terms added