Applying reengineering and fuzzy ontology in the database of the Virtual Museum of Attini Ants

• Grant number: 12/23402-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Genetics - Molecular Genetics and Genetics of Microorganisms
• Principal Investigator: Mauricio Bacci Junior
• Grantee: Diego Henrique Negretto
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Biological databases are necessary to store and make available information on different organisms, which facilitates the sharing of this information within the scientific community. Examples of biological database on ants are AntBase and FoCol, which contain digital images and other information. Our Laboratory of Molecular Evolution at UNESP in Rio Claro has developed and maintained the Virtual Museum of Attini ants, which uses the SIGLEM database. However, this database does not present relationships between entities and does not include the possibility of storing species molecular barcode. This project aims to apply reengineering and fuzzy ontology in the SIGLEM database to normalize the associative entities available, to build and provide semantic information about ants, including barcode data generated in our laboratory. This work will improve the database available, and create a metamodel for construction of new biological databases.