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most citedDeepGO: Predicting protein functions from sequence and interactions using a deep ontology-aware classifier

601 citations · 1.3k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.AI2026

A homotopy-type-theoretic generalization of neurosymbolic inference

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

A wide range of neurosymbolic (NeSy) systems compute one functional: a belief-weighted sum of a logical quantity over a space of -structures, of which weighted model counting, f…

q-bio.QM2026

LAFA: A Framework for Reproducible Longitudinal Assessment of Protein Function Annotation Models

An Phan, Yanli Wang, Frimpong Boadu +3

Motivation: Protein function prediction is a challenging task and an open problem in computational biology. The Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation (CAFA) is a trien…

cs.IR2026

SIDEKICK: A Semantically Integrated Resource for Drug Effects, Indications, and Contraindications

Mohammad Ashhad, Olga Mashkova, Ricardo Henao +1

Pharmacovigilance and clinical decision support systems utilize structured drug safety data to guide medical practice. However, existing datasets frequently depend on terminologies…

cs.LG2026

GRAFT: Decoupling Ranking and Calibration for Survival Analysis

Mohammad Ashhad, Robert Hoehndorf, Ricardo Henao

Survival analysis is complicated by censored data, high-dimensional features, and non-linear interactions. Classical models offer interpretability and superior calibration but are…

cs.AI2025

Causal knowledge graph analysis identifies adverse drug effects

Sumyyah Toonsi, Paul Schofield, Robert Hoehndorf

Knowledge graphs and structural causal models have each proven valuable for organizing biomedical knowledge and estimating causal effects, but remain largely disconnected: knowledg…

cs.AI2024

DELE: Deductive Embeddings for Knowledge Base Completion

Olga Mashkova, Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Ontology embeddings map classes, roles, and individuals in ontologies into , and within similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms infer…

cs.AI2024

Towards Automated Functional Equation Proving: A Benchmark Dataset and A Domain-Specific In-Context Agent

Mahdi Buali, Robert Hoehndorf

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) faces challenges due to its complexity and computational demands. Recent work has explored using Large Language Models (LLMs) for ATP action selecti…

cs.AI2024

Enhancing Geometric Ontology Embeddings for with Negative Sampling and Deductive Closure Filtering

Olga Mashkova, Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Ontology embeddings map classes, relations, and individuals in ontologies into , and within similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms i…

cs.AI2024★ 26 cited

Ontology Embedding: A Survey of Methods, Applications and Resources

Jiaoyan Chen, Olga Mashkova, Fernando Zhapa-Camacho +3

Ontologies are widely used for representing domain knowledge and meta data, playing an increasingly important role in Information Systems, the Semantic Web, Bioinformatics and many…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Stylized Projected GAN: A Novel Architecture for Fast and Realistic Image Generation

Md Nurul Muttakin, Malik Shahid Sultan, Robert Hoehndorf +1

Generative Adversarial Networks are used for generating the data using a generator and a discriminator, GANs usually produce high-quality images, but training GANs in an adversaria…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

An Open-Source Knowledge Graph Ecosystem for the Life Sciences

Tiffany J. Callahan, Ignacio J. Tripodi, Adrianne L. Stefanski +29

Translational research requires data at multiple scales of biological organization. Advancements in sequencing and multi-omics technologies have increased the availability of these…

cs.LO2023★ 1 cited

Lattice-preserving ontology embeddings with saturation

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Generating vector representations (embeddings) of OWL ontologies is a growing task due to its applications in predicting missing facts and knowledge-enhanced learning in fields suc…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

From axioms over graphs to vectors, and back again: evaluating the properties of graph-based ontology embeddings

Fernando Zhapa-Camacho, Robert Hoehndorf

Several approaches have been developed that generate embeddings for Description Logic ontologies and use these embeddings in machine learning. One approach of generating ontologies…

cs.DB2023★ 3 cited

Semantic Units: Organizing knowledge graphs into semantically meaningful units of representation

Lars Vogt, Tobias Kuhn, Robert Hoehndorf

Knowledge graphs and ontologies are becoming increasingly important as technical solutions for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data and metadata (FAIR Guiding Pri…

cs.AI2022★ 2 cited

FALCON: Scalable Reasoning over Inconsistent ALC Ontologies

Tilman Hinnerichs, Zhenwei Tang, Xi Peng +2

Ontologies are one of the richest sources of knowledge. Real-world ontologies often contain thousands of axioms and are often human-made. Hence, they may contain inconsistency and…

cs.LG2022★ 38 cited

Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Adversarial Data Augmentation for Knowledge Graph Completion

Zhenwei Tang, Shichao Pei, Zhao Zhang +4

Most real-world knowledge graphs (KG) are far from complete and comprehensive. This problem has motivated efforts in predicting the most plausible missing facts to complete a given…

cs.AI2022

TAR: Neural Logical Reasoning across TBox and ABox

Zhenwei Tang, Shichao Pei, Xi Peng +3

Many ontologies, i.e., Description Logic (DL) knowledge bases, have been developed to provide rich knowledge about various domains. An ontology consists of an ABox, i.e., assertion…

cs.AI2022

Description Logic EL++ Embeddings with Intersectional Closure

Xi Peng, Zhenwei Tang, Maxat Kulmanov +2

Many ontologies, in particular in the biomedical domain, are based on the Description Logic EL++. Several efforts have been made to interpret and exploit EL++ ontologies by distrib…

cs.CL2020★ 10 cited

Efficient long-distance relation extraction with DG-SpanBERT

Jun Chen, Robert Hoehndorf, Mohamed Elhoseiny +1

In natural language processing, relation extraction seeks to rationally understand unstructured text. Here, we propose a novel SpanBERT-based graph convolutional network (DG-SpanBE…

cs.AI2019★ 1 cited

EL Embeddings: Geometric construction of models for the Description Logic EL ++

Maxat Kulmanov, Wang Liu-Wei, Yuan Yan +1

An embedding is a function that maps entities from one algebraic structure into another while preserving certain characteristics. Embeddings are being used successfully for mapping…

cs.CL2018

OPA2Vec: combining formal and informal content of biomedical ontologies to improve similarity-based prediction

Fatima Zohra Smaili, Xin Gao, Robert Hoehndorf

Motivation: Ontologies are widely used in biology for data annotation, integration, and analysis. In addition to formally structured axioms, ontologies contain meta-data in the for…

q-bio.PE2018★ 67 cited

Taxon and trait recognition from digitized herbarium specimens using deep convolutional neural networks

Sohaib Younis, Claus Weiland, Robert Hoehndorf +4

Herbaria worldwide are housing a treasure of 100s of millions of herbarium specimens, which are increasingly being digitized in recent years and thereby made more easily accessible…

q-bio.QM2018★ 135 cited

Onto2Vec: joint vector-based representation of biological entities and their ontology-based annotations

Fatima Zohra Smaili, Xin Gao, Robert Hoehndorf

We propose the Onto2Vec method, an approach to learn feature vectors for biological entities based on their annotations to biomedical ontologies. Our method can be applied to a wid…

q-bio.GN2017★ 601 cited

DeepGO: Predicting protein functions from sequence and interactions using a deep ontology-aware classifier

Maxat Kulmanov, Mohammed Asif Khan, Robert Hoehndorf

A large number of protein sequences are becoming available through the application of novel high-throughput sequencing technologies. Experimental functional characterization of the…