A Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM).

ABSTRACT: Despite progress in the development of standards for describing and exchanging scientific information, the lack of easy-to-use standards for mapping between different representations of the same or similar objects in different databases poses a major impediment to data integration and interoperability. Mappings often lack the metadata needed to be correctly interpreted and applied. For example, are two terms equivalent or merely related? Are they narrow or broad matches? Or are they associated in some other way? Such relationships between the mapped terms are often not documented, which leads to incorrect assumptions and makes them hard to use in scenarios that require a high degree of precision (such as diagnostics or risk prediction). Furthermore, the lack of descriptions of how mappings

SUBMITTER: Matentzoglu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9216545 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature