Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 21
• Main Authors: Haendel, Melissa A, Balhoff, James P, Bastian, Frederic B, Blackburn, David C, Blake, Judith A, Bradford, Yvonne, Comte, Aurelie, Dahdul, Wasila M, Dececchi, Thomas A, Druzinsky, Robert E, Hayamizu, Terry F, Ibrahim, Nizar, Lewis, Suzanna E, Mabee, Paula M, Niknejad, Anne, Robinson-Rechavi, Marc, Sereno, Paul C, Mungall, Christopher J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 19.05.2014; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Amphibians; Anatomy; Annotations; Axioms; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Bio-ontology; Biodiversity; Biology; Evolutionary biology; Gene expression; Genes; Genotype & phenotype; Homology; Interoperability; Knowledge representation; Mathematical & Computational Biology; Morphological variation; Morphology; Obsolescence; Ontology; Phenotype; Phenotypes; Phenotypic variations; Semantic integration; Species; Subject specialists; Terminology; Vertebrates; Morphological variation; Phenotype; Semantic integration; Evolutionary biology; Bio-ontology

Elucidating disease and developmental dysfunction requires understanding variation in phenotype. Single-species model organism anatomy ontologies (ssAOs) have been established to represent this variation. Multi-species anatomy ontologies (msAOs; vertebrate skeletal, vertebrate homologous, teleost, a...