Ontology-Inferred Phylogeny Reconstruction for Analyzing the Evolutionary Relationships between Species: Ontological Inference versus Cladistics

摘要

We propose the use of formal ontological inferencing, rather than cladistics, to reconstruct phylogeny trees and to analyze the evolutionary relationships between species. For this experiment, we focused on the phylogeny of fungi. Lexical chaining technique has been used for incremental population of evolving ontological elements. Also category theory has been employed to provide an underlying formalism for capturing and analyzing the evolutionary behavior of the system.