Anatomical ontologies: names and places in biology

被引:8
作者
Baldock, R [1 ]
Burger, A [1 ]
机构
[1] MRC, Human Genet Unit, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, Midlothian, Scotland
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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10.1186/gb-2005-6-4-108
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Ontology has long been the preserve of philosophers and logicians. Recently, ideas from this field have been picked up by computer scientists as a basis for encoding knowledge and with the hope of achieving interoperability and intelligent system behavior. In bioinformatics, ontologies might allow hitherto impossible query and data-mining activities. We review the use of anatomy ontologies to represent space in biological organisms, specifically mouse and human.
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