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Choosing preferable labels for the Japanese translation of the Human Phenotype Ontology [PDF]

open access: yesGenomics & Informatics, 2020
The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is the de facto standard ontology to describe human phenotypes in detail, and it is actively used, particularly in the field of rare disease diagnoses.
Kota Ninomiya   +4 more
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Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper addresses a family of issues surrounding the biological phenomenon of resistance and its representation in realist ontologies. Resistance terms from various existing ontologies are examined and found to be either overly narrow, inconsistent ...
Albert Goldfain   +2 more
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Ontologies for Bioinformatics

open access: yesBioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2008
The past twenty years have witnessed an explosion of biological data in diverse database formats governed by heterogeneous infrastructures. Not only are semantics (attribute terms) different in meaning across databases, but their organization varies ...
Nadine Schuurman, Agnieszka Leszczynski
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Metagenomics and biological ontology

open access: yesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2007
Metagenomics is an emerging microbial systems science that is based on the large-scale analysis of the DNA of microbial communities in their natural environments. Studies of metagenomes are revealing the vast scope of biodiversity in a wide range of environments, as well as new functional capacities of individual cells and communities, and the complex ...
Dupré, John, O'Malley, Maureen A.
openaire   +4 more sources

Biomedical ontologies and their development, management, and applications in and beyond China

open access: yesJournal of Bio-X Research, 2019
. Since the boom of biomedical big data studies, various big data processing technologies have been developed rapidly. As an important form of knowledge representation, ontology has become an important means for the utilization and integration of ...
Hongjie Pan   +6 more
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Content and quality of physical activity ontologies: a systematic review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Introduction Ontologies are a formal way to represent knowledge in a particular field and have the potential to transform the field of health promotion and digital interventions.
Maya Braun   +8 more
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IntegromeDB: an integrated system and biological search engine

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2012
Background With the growth of biological data in volume and heterogeneity, web search engines become key tools for researchers. However, general-purpose search engines are not specialized for the search of biological data. Description Here, we present an
Baitaluk Michael   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing and using ontologies in behavioural science: addressing issues raised [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2023
Ontologies are ways of representing aspects of the world in terms of uniquely defined classes of ‘entities’ and relationships between them. They are widely used in biological science, data science and commerce because they provide clarity, consistency ...
Nelli Hankonen   +5 more
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The development of non-coding RNA ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Identification of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has been significantly improved over the past decade. On the other hand, semantic annotation of ncRNA data is facing critical challenges due to the lack of a comprehensive ontology to serve as common data ...
Blake, Judith   +15 more
core   +1 more source

A Guideline-Oriented Ontological Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Incontinence (UrInO-DSS): A System Framework

open access: yesJournal of Urological Surgery, 2023
Objective: To design an ontology-based clinical decision support system based on a clinical guideline for urinary incontinence.Materials and Methods:The study will be conducted in four phases: Updating the adapted clinical guideline for urinary ...
Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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