Health Application for Natural Products Information System for Plants (HANAPIN-SP) 2.0: Using Ontologies for Knowledge Representation and Data Storage

Abstract

Health Application for Natural Products Information Systems for Plants (HANAPIN-SP) 1.0 provides a central repository for storing, sharing and searching projects on natural products, but the limitations of relational databases, which is the storage schema of HANAPIN-SP 1.0, are lack of flexibility and lack of adaptability. An ontology-driven information system is an information system that uses an ontology to store both the data structure and the data itself, and address the limitations of relational databases. Thus, HANAPIN-SP 2.0 changed its storage from relational database-based to ontology-based. Plant natural products were also added to the existing Natural Products Ontology by Batista-Navarro, Manansala, Mendoza, and Ananiadou.