Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology.

doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r5

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Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology.

Genome biology - 31 Jan 2012

Mungall Christopher J, Torniai Carlo, Gkoutos Georgios V, Lewis Suzanna E, Haendel Melissa A

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We present Uberon, an integrated cross-species ontology consisting of over 6,500 classes representing a variety of anatomical entities, organized according to traditional anatomical classification criteria. The ontology represents structures in a species-neutral way and includes extensive associations to existing species-centric anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of model organism and human data. Uberon...

Topics

Anatomy, Comparative
Classification
Computational Biology
Databases, Factual
Humans
Phenotype
Software
Species Specificity

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PMID: 22293552
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r5
PMCID: PMC3334586

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