Re:Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases...
by chrismungall on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:56PM
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Many large OBO ontologies use EL++ reasoning (e.g. Elk), performing DL reasoning on smaller chunks (e.g. relations). Having said that newer reasoners like Konklude apparently do well with DL reasoning over combinations of large ontologies.
But ultimately it depends on what you want to do. In the life sciences subsets of FOL only buy you so much, and some kind of statistical or probabilistic inference is required. Mostly this is combined with logical inference in crude ad-hoc ways...
For "data" / ABoxes we have had a lot of success with the RL subset. We use this a lot https://github.com/balhoff/arachne
But ultimately it depends on what you want to do. In the life sciences subsets of FOL only buy you so much, and some kind of statistical or probabilistic inference is required. Mostly this is combined with logical inference in crude ad-hoc ways...