James Balhoff, Benjamin Good, Seth Carbon and Chris Mungall.
Abstract: This paper introduces Arachne, an RDF rule engine with support for efficient reasoning with large OWL RL terminologies. Arachne is being used by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium to provide real-time reasoning within the Noctua modeling tool while creating GO "Causal Activity Models".
Keywords: OWL; RDF; SWRL; Gene Ontology; rules