Modified version of the BioTop Upper Ontology for Biology

[Stefan Schulz]

--- apologies for multiple postings ---

Hi everybody,

we have made substantial modifications and updates of the BioTop Upper
Ontology for Biology, see

http://www.ifomis.uni-saarland.de/biotop

Summarizing the updates, there were made substantial extensions in the
BFO snap:DependentContinuant branch. Furthermore we are now using only
the instance-level subset from the OBO Relation Ontology (due to the
restrictions imposed by OWL-DL), and we are not using the granularity
dependent subclasses of snap:IndependentContinuant.
The reason is that BioTop, by design, does not make any a priori
commitment to granularity levels.
Hence the subsets bfol (BFO light) and rol (OBO RO light) we introduced.

Any kind of feedback, suggestions, and critique is welcome!

Stefan Schulz
Elena Beisswanger
Holger Stenzhorn

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