CSEO - the Cigarette Smoke Exposure Ontology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past years, significant progress has been made to develop and use experimental settings for extensive data collection on tobacco smoke exposure and tobacco smoke exposure-associated diseases. Due to the growing number of such data, there is a need for domain-specific standard ontologies to facilitate the integration of tobacco exposure data.

Results

The CSEO (version 1.0) is composed of 20091 concepts. The ontology in its current form is able to capture a wide range of cigarette smoke exposure concepts within the knowledge domain of exposure science with a reasonable sensitivity and specificity. Moreover, it showed a promising performance when used to answer domain expert questions. The CSEO complies with standard upper-level ontologies and is freely access

SUBMITTER: Younesi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4120729 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature