Ontology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Information science and natural sciences=== In [[Ontology (information science)|information science]] ontologies are classified in various ways, using criteria such as the degree of abstraction and field of application:<ref name=Petrov/> # ''[[Upper ontology]]'': concepts supporting development of an ontology, [[meta-ontology]]. # ''[[Ontology (information science)|Domain ontology]]'': concepts relevant to a particular topic, [[domain of discourse]], or area of interest, for example, to information technology or to computer languages, or to particular branches of science. # ''Interface ontology'': concepts relevant to the juncture of two disciplines. # ''[[Process ontology]]'': inputs, outputs, constraints, sequencing information, involved in business or engineering processes. In the [[biomedical sciences]], ontologies have been used to create terminologies for various aspects of living organism or medical applications. A prominent example is the [[gene ontology]], but many other ontologies exist, e.g., for anatomical terms or physiology.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Bard|first1=Jonathan B. L.|last2=Rhee|first2=Seung Y.|date=March 2004|title=Ontologies in biology: design, applications and future challenges|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg1295|journal=Nature Reviews Genetics|language=en|volume=5|issue=3|pages=213β222|doi=10.1038/nrg1295|pmid=14970823 |s2cid=10618089 |issn=1471-0064}}</ref> Standards have been established to maintain and organize biological ontologies under the [[OBO Foundry|OBO]] (Open Biological Ontologies) project.<ref name=":1"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page