BioOnto: Towards an Integration of Biological and Biogeographic Data

MARCOS ZÁRATE; AGUSTINA BUCCELLA; PABLO R. FILLOTTRANI

Bozen-Bolzano

Workshop; Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS) Workshop; 2017

International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)

 In this work we present the preliminary design of  BioOnto, an ontology-based system designed to integrate two important databases for Argentine science, the National System of Biological Data (SNDB) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). BioOnto uses Web Ontology Language (OWL) to make assertions about classes in the underlying model and to define object properties that are used to link instances therein. To accomplish the integration, we follow the Single Ontology Approach because can be applied to integration problems where all information sources to be integrated provide nearly the same view on a domain as in this case.We illustrate the usefulness of BioOnto presenting fragments of the ontology that supports inference about (1) the relationship between preys and predators (2) which species coexist in a marine region (in particular the Argentine region is of our interest).