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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 6.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129(Pt 2):1260–1264.

Table 1.

Inference rules for is_a and part_of in GO

Relation is_a part_of
is_a IF <x is_a y>
& <y is_a z>
THEN <x is_a z>
IF <x is_a y>
& <y part_of z>
THEN <x part_of z>
part_of IF <x part_of y>
& <y is_a z>
THEN <x part_of z>
IF <x part_of y>
& <y part_of z>
THEN <x part_of z>