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In the last years, a number of semantic biomedical systems have been developed to store biomedical knowledge in an accessible manner. However, their practical usage is limited, since they require expertise in semantic languages by the user, or, in the other hand, their query interfaces do not fully exploit the semantics of the knowledge represented. Such drawbacks were present in the OGO system, a resource that semantically integrates knowledge about orthologs and human genetic diseases, developed by our research group. In this paper, we present an extension of the OGO system for improving the process of designing advanced semantic queries. The query module requires the users to know and to manage only the OGO ontology, which represents the domain knowledge, simplifying the process of query building.
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Miñarro-Giménez, J.A., Aranguren, M.E., García-Sánchez, F., Fernández-Breis, J.T. (2010). A Semantic Query Interface for the OGO Platform. In: Khuri, S., Lhotská, L., Pisanti, N. (eds) Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2010. ITBAM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15020-3_13
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