Abstract: As the data regarding biological genetics has grown exponentially, the ability for scientists to access this data has diminished. This made it more essential to have a consistent representation in a specific domain for Gene Ontology (GO) where it will be easier to retrieve information about genes of interest. Promising advances in data semantics and artificial logic have led to the development of ontologies that have the ability to tie together vast amounts of information from disparate locations and formats into a single, useable interface. One such project, the Gene Ontology, is discussed below along with an evaluation if the GO’s effectiveness and weaknesses. In this research, we first review the motivation behind the development of the GO and some of its major design principles. Then we describe the possibility of extending this ontology for use in other fields. After that, we will do an evaluation based on some evaluation metrics. Finally, we highlight some of the practical uses and applications of GO.
Keywords: Database, Gene, Ontology, GO, Semantics, Biology.
Title: A Case Study of the Gene Database Ontology
Author: Kahtani, Abdullah M
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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