mOWL: Machine Learning Library with Ontologies

mOWL is a library that provides different machine learning methods in which ontologies are used as background knowledge. mOWL is developed mainly in Python, but we have integrated the functionalities of OWLAPI, which is written in Java, for which we use JPype to bind Python with the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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Installation

System dependencies

JDK version >= 22.x.x
Python version: 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
Conda version >= 24.x.x

Python requirements

torch
gensim >= 4.3.0
JPype1 == 1.5.1
pykeen == 1.11.0
scipy < 1.15.0

Install from PyPi

pip install mowl-borg

Install from source

pip install git+https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/mowl

Relevant papers:

Authors

mOWL is a project initiated and developed by the Bio-Ontology Research Group from KAUST. Furthermore, mOWL had other collaboration by being part of:

Biohackathon Japan 2024
Biohackathon MENA 2023 as project #20.
Biohackathon Europe 2022 as project #18.
Biohackathon Europe 2021 as project #27.

License

This software library is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license

Documentation

Full documentation and API reference can be found in our ReadTheDocs website.

ChangeLog

ChangeLog is available in our changelog file and also in the release section.

Citation

If you used mOWL in your work, please consider citing this article:

@article{10.1093/bioinformatics/btac811,
    author = {Zhapa-Camacho, Fernando and Kulmanov, Maxat and Hoehndorf, Robert},
    title = "{mOWL: Python library for machine learning with biomedical ontologies}",
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    year = {2022},
    month = {12},
    issn = {1367-4803},
    doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btac811},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac811},
    note = {btac811},
    eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac811/48438324/btac811.pdf},
}

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