Building a biomedical ontology recommender web service.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Researchers in biomedical informatics use ontologies and terminologies to annotate their data in order to facilitate data integration and translational discoveries. As the use of ontologies for annotation of biomedical datasets has risen, a common challenge is to identify ontologies that are best suited to annotating specific datasets. The number and variety of biomedical ontologies is large, and it is cumbersome for a researcher to figure out which ontology to use.

Methods

We present the Biomedical Ontology Recommender web service. The system uses textual metadata or a set of keywords describing a domain of interest and suggests appropriate ontologies for annotating or representing the data. The service makes a decision based on three criteria. The first one is c

SUBMITTER: Jonquet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2903720 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature