From an Ontology-Based Search Engine towards a More Flexible Integration for Medical and Biological Information

Abstract

Better understanding pathologies-genes relationships requires semantic integration of heterogeneous information distributed in multiple `medical' and `biological' sources. This paper presents an ongoing project that aims at developing an information integration system providing a unified access to biomedical resources. The basic idea is to use for semantic integration the existing knowledge available in standard domain terminologies e.g. GeneOntology^TM, UMLS and databanks e.g. HUGO, GOA. A first tool, BioMeKe, has been achieved in that perspective