Semantic integration of physiology phenotypes with an application to the Cellular Phenotype Ontology
Author(s) -
Robert Hoehndorf,
Midori A. Harris,
Heinrich Herre,
Gabriella Rustici,
Georgios V. Gkoutos
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts250
Subject(s) - phenotype , ontology , computer science , computational biology , semantic integration , biology , world wide web , semantic web , genetics , gene , semantic computing , epistemology , philosophy
The systematic observation of phenotypes has become a crucial tool of functional genomics, and several large international projects are currently underway to identify and characterize the phenotypes that are associated with genotypes in several species. To integrate phenotype descriptions within and across species, phenotype ontologies have been developed. Applying ontologies to unify phenotype descriptions in the domain of physiology has been a particular challenge due to the high complexity of the underlying domain.
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