Babel's tower revisited: a universal resource for cross-referencing across annotation databases.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Annotation databases are widely used as public repositories of biological knowledge. However, most of these resources have been developed by independent groups which used different designs and different identifiers for the same biological entities. As we show in this article, incoherent name spaces between various databases represent a serious impediment to using the existing annotations at their full potential. Navigating between various such name spaces by mapping IDs from one database to another is a very important issue which is not properly addressed at the moment.

Results

We have developed a web-based resource, Onto-Translate (OT), which effectively addresses this problem. OT is able to map onto each other different types of biological entities from the foll

SUBMITTER: Draghici S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2435247 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature