Putting data integration into practice: using biomedical terminologies to add structure to existing data sources.

ABSTRACT: A major purpose of biomedical terminologies is to provide uniform concept representation, allowing for improved methods of analysis of biomedical information. While this goal is being realized in bioinformatics, with the emergence of the Gene Ontology as a standard, there is still no real standard for the representation of clinical concepts. As discoveries in biology and clinical medicine move from parallel to intersecting paths, standardized representation will become more important. A large portion of significant data, however, is mainly represented as free text, upon which conducting computer-based inferencing is nearly impossible. In order to test our hypothesis that existing biomedical terminologies, specifically the UMLS Metathesaurus and SNOMED CT, could be used as templates to impl

SUBMITTER: Cantor MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1480054 | biostudies-literature | 2003

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature