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A set of ontologies to drive tools for the control of vector-borne diseases

Pantelis Topalis¹, Emmanuel Dialynas¹, Elvira Mitraka², Elena Deliyanni¹, Inga Siden-Kiamos¹ & Christos Louis³

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1. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2. Department of Biology, University of Crete, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
3. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece ; Department of Biology, University of Crete, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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Received 25 July 2009 18:31 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009

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Bioinformatics

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• biomedical ontologies
• malaria
• decision support system
• Infectious disease
• VectorBase
• IRbase

Abstract:

We are developing a set of ontologies that deal with vector-borne diseases and the arthropod vectors that transmit them. For practical reasons (application priorities), we initiated this project with an ontology of insecticide resistance followed by a series of ontologies that describe malaria as well as physiological processes of mosquitoes that are relevant to, and involved in, disease transmission. These will be expanded to encompass other vector-borne diseases as well as non-mosquito vectors. The aim of the whole undertaking, which is worked out in the frame of the international IDO (Infectious Disease Ontology) project, is to provide the community with a set of ontological tools that can be used both in the development of specific databases and, most importantly, in the construction of decision support systems to control these diseases.

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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

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Topalis, Pantelis, Dialynas, Emmanuel, Mitraka, Elvira, Deliyanni, Elena, Siden-Kiamos, Inga, and Louis, Christos. A set of ontologies to drive tools for the control of vector-borne diseases. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3464.1> (2009)

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