%0 Conference Proceedings %1 Batchelor2008 %A Batchelor, Colin %B Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008) %C Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands %D 2008 %I IOS Press %K *file-import-13-09-19 chemistry %P 195--207 %T An Upper-Level Ontology for Chemistry %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1563953.1563974 %X Chemical entities are the foundation of biochemistry and biology, but until now there have been few coherent attempts to produce a top-level ontology for chemistry to connect ontological descriptions of reality at the molecular level, such as ChEBI, with upper-level ontologies such as BFO, or indeed familiar laboratory-scale concepts such as mixtures. We work out relationships between chemical types that are compatible with the OBO Relation Ontology, describe macroscopic chemical systems in terms of grains and collectives, and propose a top-level ontology for chemically-relevant continuants and discuss it in relation to BFO and BioTop. %@ 978-1-58603-923-3

@proceedings{Batchelor2008, abstract = {{Chemical entities are the foundation of biochemistry and biology, but until now there have been few coherent attempts to produce a top-level ontology for chemistry to connect ontological descriptions of reality at the molecular level, such as ChEBI, with upper-level ontologies such as BFO, or indeed familiar laboratory-scale concepts such as mixtures. We work out relationships between chemical types that are compatible with the OBO Relation Ontology, describe macroscopic chemical systems in terms of grains and collectives, and propose a top-level ontology for chemically-relevant continuants and discuss it in relation to BFO and BioTop.}}, added-at = {2019-03-11T21:00:05.000+0100}, address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands}, author = {Batchelor, Colin}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c2aa8d72ac66b856912fcf9a015e5116/fairybasslet}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008)}, citeulike-article-id = {10207626}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1563953.1563974}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1563953.1563974}, interhash = {40093818d07fcbfc6dc80d907cba6abe}, intrahash = {c2aa8d72ac66b856912fcf9a015e5116}, isbn = {978-1-58603-923-3}, keywords = {*file-import-13-09-19 chemistry}, location = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands}, pages = {195--207}, pdf = {file:///H:/publications/Batchelor2008.pdf}, posted-at = {2012-01-08 22:53:07}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IOS Press}, series = {Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008)}, timestamp = {2019-03-11T21:06:37.000+0100}, title = {{An Upper-Level Ontology for Chemistry}}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1563953.1563974}, year = 2008 }