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Evolutionary characters, phenotypes and ontologies: curating data from the systematic biology literature.
PloS one - 20 May 2010
Dahdul Wasila M, Balhoff James P, Engeman Jeffrey, Grande Terry, Hilton Eric J, Kothari Cartik, Lapp Hilmar, Lundberg John G, Midford Peter E, Vision Todd J, Westerfield Monte, Mabee Paula M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The wealth of phenotypic descriptions documented in the published articles, monographs, and dissertations of phylogenetic systematics is traditionally reported in a free-text format, and it is therefore largely inaccessible for linkage to biological databases for genetics, development, and phenotypes, and difficult to manage for large-scale integrative work. The Phenoscape project aims to represent...
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