Automatic, context-specific generation of Gene Ontology slims.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of ontologies to control vocabulary and structure annotation has added value to genome-scale data, and contributed to the capture and re-use of knowledge across research domains. Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used to capture detailed expert knowledge in genomic-scale datasets and as a consequence has grown to contain many terms, making it unwieldy for many applications. To increase its ease of manipulation and efficiency of use, subsets called GO slims are often created by collapsing terms upward into more general, high-level terms relevant to a particular context. Creation of a GO slim currently requires manipulation and editing of GO by an expert (or community) familiar with both the ontology and the biological context. Decisions about which terms to include are

SUBMITTER: Davis MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3098080 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature