Barry Smith
University at Buffalo; New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences View Nature Network profile
Malaria Diagnosis and the Plasmodium Life Cycle: the BFO Perspective
Definitive diagnosis of malaria requires the demonstration through laboratory tests of the presence within the patient of malaria parasites or their components. Since malaria parasites can be prese…
Received 07 November 2009 15:11 UTC; Posted 09 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
VO: Vaccine Ontology
The collaborative, community-based Vaccine Ontology (VO) was developed to promote vaccine data standardization, integration, and computer-assisted reasoning. Currently VO covers a variety of aspect…
Received 05 August 2009 16:39 UTC; Posted 05 August 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology, 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
Clonal Complexes in Biomedical Ontologies
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 techniqu…
Received 27 July 2009 19:17 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSa
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 exami…
Received 27 July 2009 19:12 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSa
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 exami…
Received 27 July 2009 19:08 UTC; Posted 27 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Ontology (Science)
Increasingly, in data-intensive areas of the life sciences, experimental results are being described in algorithmically useful ways with the help of ontologies. Such ontologies are authored and mai…
Received 15 July 2008 19:58 UTC; Posted 16 July 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology
Numerous research groups are now utilizing Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level framework to assist in the organization and integration of biomedical information. This paper provides eluci…
Received 02 June 2008 15:27 UTC; Posted 03 June 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics
