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Ontologies for Bioinformatics
2008
Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
The past twenty years have witnessed an explosion of biological data in diverse database formats governed by heterogeneous infrastructures. Not only are semantics (attribute terms) different in meaning across databases, but their organization varies widely. Ontologies are a concept imported from computing science to describe different conceptual frameworks that guide the collection, organization and publication of biological data. An ontology is similar to a paradigm but has very strict
doi:10.4137/bbi.s451
pmid:19812775
pmcid:PMC2735951
fatcat:h6npjmreyvd37dcgmy63tuauam