Applying the functional abnormality ontology pattern to anatomical functions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several biomedical ontologies cover the domain of biological functions, including molecular and cellular functions. However, there is currently no publicly available ontology of anatomical functions.Consequently, no explicit relation between anatomical structures and their functions is expressed in the anatomy ontologies that are available for various species. Such an explicit relation between anatomical structures and their functions would be useful both for defining the classes of the anatomy and the phenotype ontologies accurately.

Results

We provide an ontological analysis of functions and functional abnormalities. From this analysis, we derive an approach to the automatic extraction of anatomical functions from existing ontologies which uses a combination of

SUBMITTER: Hoehndorf R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2895731 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature