Title :
Ontology-inferred phylogeny reconstruction for analyzing the evolutionary relationships between species: Ontological inference versus cladistics
Author :
Shaban-Nejad, Arash ; Haarslev, Volker
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC
Abstract :
We propose the use of formal ontological inferencing, rather than cladistics, to reconstruct phylogeny trees and to analyze the evolutionary relationships between species. For this experiment, we focused on the phylogeny of fungi. Lexical chaining technique has been used for incremental population of evolving ontological elements. Also category theory has been employed to provide an underlying formalism for capturing and analyzing the evolutionary behavior of the system.
Keywords :
biology computing; evolution (biological); genetics; genomics; ontologies (artificial intelligence); category theory; cladistics; evolutionary relationship; fungi; lexical chaining technique; ontological inferencing; ontology-inferred phylogeny reconstruction; phylogeny trees; species; Computer science; Evolution (biology); Fungi; Genetic mutations; History; Ontologies; Organisms; Phylogeny; Systematics; Taxonomy; Category Theory; Fungal Genomics; Ontology; Ontology population; Phylogeny;
Conference_Titel :
BioInformatics and BioEngineering, 2008. BIBE 2008. 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2844-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2845-8
DOI :
10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696848
