Biological knowledge discovery using the semantic web framework

标准的网络搜索引擎可能会找到描述生物化学物质的网页，但它们几乎没有能力找到具有特定属性的生物化学物质。其原因是，网络上的生化信息没有以机器可理解的格式表示，因此，不能以复杂的方式查询。如果生物化学是用一种正式的知识表示语言来表示的，比如描述逻辑，那么我们就可以用计算机来对信息进行推理，并推断出我们共享的概念化（即生化本体）中明确的知识。

Standard web search engines might find web pages that describe biochemicals, but they have little capability in finding biochemicals with a specific set of properties. The reason for this is that biochemical information on the web is not represented in a machine understandable format, and as such, cannot be queried in a complex manner. If biochemicals were represented using a formal knowledge representation language such as description logics, then we could use computers to reason about the information and infer knowledge that is explicit in our shared conceptualization, i.e. a biochemical ontology.