Invited presentation at the final Phenotype RCN Summit, held at Biosphere2, AZ, Feb 26-28, 2016. Co-presented with N. Cellinese.
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32. FEED
Textual Definition –
The hyoglossus is a muscle that attaches to
the hyoid and tongue and is innervated by
Cranial Nerve XII.
Computable Definition –
('attached to' some 'hyoid bone')
and ('attached to' some tongue)
and ('innervated by' some 'hypoglossal
nerve') and
spatially disjoint with 'intrinsic tongue
muscle'
Druzinsky et al (2015): Logic definiDons of mammalian
feeding muscles by means of necessary and sufficient
condiDons true for all mammals
Nomenclature ≠ Seman(cs
40. Phyloreferences as ontological expressions
Phyloreference expressions
can be:
• Easily generated by
anyone
• Can work on any tree
• Named and registered
– To promote reuse and
consistency
– To improve usability
and accessibility
Class: Campanulaceae
Annota(ons:
rdfs:label “Campanulaceae_aier_1995”
dc:descripDon “the clade that includes
Campanula laDfolia but not Sphenoclea”
EquivalentTo:
cdao:has_Descendant value
taxon:Campanula_laDfolia and
phyloref:excludes_lineage value taxon:Sphenoclea
Class: AGF4-SHRU-3560
EquivalentTo:
cdao:has_Descendant value
taxon:Campanula_laDfolia and
phyloref:excludes_lineage value taxon:Sphenoclea
vs.