Questions tagged [mesh-ontology]

The MeSH Ontology is an RDF-based ontology derived from the MeSH Vocabulary. It defines a hierarchically-organized terminology for indexing and cataloging of biomedical information such as MEDLINE/PUBmed and other National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.

For more, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.

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how to extract synonyms from MeSH ontology?

In this level of my work, I need to extract a class synonyms from MeSH ontology. I am searching for the right syntax for the SPARQL query: how synonyms are they stored in MeSH? and how can I extract them?
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Max depth or max returned rows from recursive SPARQL?

I am trying to get all synonyms for anatomical terms from NCBI's MeSH, but it seems like the low(est?) level terms are being omitted. "NK cell" is definitely a synonym for "Killer Cells, Natural", http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D007694,…
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How would you evaluate a large scale ontology (the CSO) that comprises of one class and hundreds of individuals?

Is there such a tool that can automate the evaluation of such a large scale ontology without focusing on the evaluation of the class and mainly focuses on evaluating the ontologies individuals and their semantic relationships?
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