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The amount of information generated by biological research has lead to an intensive use of models. Mathematical and computational modeling needs accurate description to share, reuse and simulate models as formulated by original authors. In this paper, we introduce the Cell Component Ontology - CelO, expressed in OWL-DL. This ontology captures both the structure of a cell model and the properties of functional components. We use this ontology in a Web project – CelOWS - to describe, query and compose CellML models. It aims to improve reuse and composition of existent components and allow semantic validation of new models.
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Matos, E.E., Campos, F., Braga, R., Weber, R., Palazzi, D. (2009). CelOWS: A Service Oriented Architecture to Define, Query and Reuse Biological Models. In: Allen, G., Nabrzyski, J., Seidel, E., van Albada, G.D., Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5544. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01970-8_8
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