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Multiple Ontologies for Integrating Complex Phenotype Datasets
There has been an emergence of multiple large scale phenotyping projects in the rat model organism community as well as renewed interest in the ongoing phenotype data generated by thousands of rese…
Received 05 August 2009 19:08 UTC; Posted 05 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
VO: Vaccine Ontology
Vaccine research, as well as the development, testing, clinical trials, and commercial uses of vaccines involve complex processes with various biological data that include gene and protein expressi…
Received 05 August 2009 15:27 UTC; Posted 05 August 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Immunology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Applying Biomedical Ontologies on Semantic Query Expansion
1- IntroductionThe interpretation of a question (or information need) depends, among other things, of a series of lexicalsemantic relations that complement and help the cognitive process of a…
Received 05 August 2009 02:24 UTC; Posted 05 August 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: OBO and the Semantic Web
The tools developed to work with an expanding number of biomedical ontologies are all directed “inward,” back toward the scientists. The Semantic Web is an effort to assign meaning to data availabl…
Received 31 July 2009 16:58 UTC; Posted 04 August 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Towards automatic classification within the ChEBI ontology
BackgroundAppearing in a wide variety of contexts, biochemical ‘small molecules’ are a core element of biomedical data. Chemical ontologies, which provide stable identifiers and a shared vocabu…
Received 31 July 2009 14:15 UTC; Posted 31 July 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics
NPO: Ontology for Cancer Nanotechnology Research
We present the design and development of NanoParticle Ontology (NPO). The ontology is implemented in the Ontology Web Language (OWL). The domain terms in NPO currently represent entities, which de…
Received 29 July 2009 16:13 UTC; Posted 29 July 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Bioinformatics
Ontology Mapping of PATO to YATO for the improvement of interoperability of quality description
To facilitate broad interoperability for phenotype information between different ontological frameworks, we developed a reference ontology, PATO2YATO_Quality, with the careful mapping of terms of P…
Received 29 July 2009 12:22 UTC; Posted 29 July 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Improvement of PubMed Literature Searching using Biomedical Ontology
PubMed articles are annotated using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to increase search efficiency. However, MeSH contains limited information on many biomedical domains (e.g., vaccine). Biomedi…
Received 28 July 2009 14:15 UTC; Posted 28 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
BFO/DOLCE Primitive Relation Comparison
This paper examines the primitive relations (dependence, quality, and constitution) of the BFO and DOLCE upper ontologies, employed in developing domain ontologies of the biomedical sciences. The s…
Received 27 July 2009 22:21 UTC; Posted 28 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Computing the inverse of the neurophysiological spike-response transform
Consider the transform from a discrete neuronal spike train to a continuous neurophysiological response such as postsynaptic membrane voltage or muscle contraction. Often, we can record only the r…
Received 27 July 2009 18:43 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
