Annotation of phenotypic diversity: decoupling data curation and ontology curation using Phenex.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phenex (http://phenex.phenoscape.org/) is a desktop application for semantically annotating the phenotypic character matrix datasets common in evolutionary biology. Since its initial publication, we have added new features that address several major bottlenecks in the efficiency of the phenotype curation process: allowing curators during the data curation phase to provisionally request terms that are not yet available from a relevant ontology; supporting quality control against annotation guidelines to reduce later manual review and revision; and enabling the sharing of files for collaboration among curators.

Results

We decoupled data annotation from ontology development by creating an Ontology Request Broker (ORB) within Phenex. Curators can use the ORB to reques

SUBMITTER: Balhoff JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4236444 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature