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Best behaviour? Ontologies and the formal description of animal behaviour.

Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Oct 2015

Gkoutos Georgios V, Hoehndorf Robert, Tsaprouni Loukia, Schofield Paul N

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The development of ontologies for describing animal behaviour has proved to be one of the most difficult of all scientific knowledge domains. Ranging from neurological processes to human emotions, the range and scope needed for such ontologies is highly challenging, but if data integration and co...

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PMID: 26215546
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-015-9590-y

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