System and method for facilitating user interaction with multi-relational ontologies
AssigneeBioWisdom Limited
InventorsStephen Gardner, Matthew Eldridge, Benjamin Davis, Conor McMenamin
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for facilitating user interaction with multi-relational ontologies. The invention includes a graphical user interface for enabling user visualization and navigation through one or more multi-relational ontologies.
Claims13
A computer-implemented graphical user interface for displaying and enabling a user to interact with one or more stored multi-relational ontologies, where the one or more ontologies comprise a plurality of assertions, wherein assertions include a first concept, a second concept and a relationship between the first and second concept, and wherein each concept has a concept type and each relationship has a relationship type, the graphical user interface comprising:
- means for selecting a concept for display;
- a multi-relational pane for displaying information associated with the selected concept, including;
- i) one or more groups of related concepts, where the related concepts are grouped by predetermined characteristics;
- ii) identification of the type of relationship for each related concept;
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- means for selecting a related concept to display information associated with the selected related concept.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.