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John Zobolas | Zendy; Vasundra Touré | Zendy; Martin Kuiper | Zendy; Steven Vercruysse | Zendy

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UniBioDicts: Unified access to Biological Dictionaries

Author(s) -

John Zobolas,

Vasundra Touré,

Martin Kuiper,

Steven Vercruysse

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1065

Subject(s) - computer science , identifier , metadata , uniprot , interface (matter) , information retrieval , world wide web , annotation , license , biological database , gateway (web page) , matching (statistics) , bioinformatics , programming language , artificial intelligence , statistics , mathematics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , biology , gene , operating system , biochemistry , chemistry

We present a set of software packages that provide uniform access to diverse biological vocabulary resources that are instrumental for current biocuration efforts and tools. The Unified Biological Dictionaries (UniBioDicts or UBDs) provide a single query-interface for accessing the online API services of leading biological data providers. Given a search string, UBDs return a list of matching term, identifier and metadata units from databases (e.g. UniProt), controlled vocabularies (e.g. PSI-MI) and ontologies (e.g. GO, via BioPortal). This functionality can be connected to input fields (user-interface components) that offer autocomplete lookup for these dictionaries. UBDs create a unified gateway for accessing life science concepts, helping curators find annotation terms across resources (based on descriptive metadata and unambiguous identifiers), and helping data users search and retrieve the right query terms.

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