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Clonal Complexes in Biomedical Ontologies

Albert Goldfain¹, Lindsay G. Cowell² & Barry Smith³

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1. Blue Highway, LLC
2. Duke University Medical Center
3. University at Buffalo

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Received 27 July 2009 19:17 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009

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Bioinformatics

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• ontology
• Infectious disease
• clonal complexes

Abstract:

An accurate classification of bacteria is essential for the proper identification of patient infections and subsequent treatment decisions. Multi-Locus Se-quence Typing (MLST) is a genetic technique for bacterial classification. MLST classifications are used to cluster bacteria into clonal complexes. Importantly, clonal complexes can serve as a biological species concept for bacteria, facilitating an otherwise difficult taxonomic classification. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of terms relating to clonal complexes in biomedical ontologies.

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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

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Goldfain, Albert, Cowell, Lindsay, and Smith, Barry. Clonal Complexes in Biomedical Ontologies. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3476.1> (2009)

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