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Linking human diseases to animal models using ontology-based phenotype annotation.
PLoS biology - 1 Nov 2009
Washington Nicole L, Haendel Melissa A, Mungall Christopher J, Ashburner Michael, Westerfield Monte, Lewis Suzanna E
Abstract excerpt
Scientists and clinicians who study genetic alterations and disease have traditionally described phenotypes in natural language. The considerable variation in these free-text descriptions has posed a hindrance to the important task of identifying candidate genes and models for human diseases and indicates the need for a computationally tractable method to mine data resources for mutant phenotypes. In this study,...
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