New concepts for building vocabulary for cell image ontologies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are significant challenges associated with the building of ontologies for cell biology experiments including the large numbers of terms and their synonyms. These challenges make it difficult to simultaneously query data from multiple experiments or ontologies. If vocabulary terms were consistently used and reused across and within ontologies, queries would be possible through shared terms. One approach to achieving this is to strictly control the terms used in ontologies in the form of a pre-defined schema, but this approach limits the individual researcher's ability to create new terms when needed to describe new experiments.

Results

Here, we propose the use of a limited number of highly reusable common root terms, and rules for an experimentalist to locall

SUBMITTER: Plant AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3293096 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature