Title
The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species.
Abstract
The use of ontologies to standardize biological data and facilitate comparisons among datasets has steadily grown as the complexity and amount of available data have increased. Despite the numerous ontologies available, one area currently lacking a robust ontology is the description of vertebrate traits. A trait is defined as any measurable or observable characteristic pertaining to an organism or any of its substructures. While there are several ontologies to describe entities and processes in phenotypes, diseases, and clinical measurements, one has not been developed for vertebrate traits; the Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) was created to fill this void.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/2041-1480-4-13
J. Biomedical Semantics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Quantitative trait loci, Gene association, Trait ontology
Ontology (information science),Data science,Data mining,Ontology,Biological data,Quantitative trait locus,Annotation,Computer science,Trait,Controlled vocabulary,Organism
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
1
2041-1480
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.00
13
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carissa A Park1253.21
Susan M. Bello2544.80
Cynthia L. Smith317712.00
Zhi-Liang Hu4866.91
Diane H Munzenmaier5547.06
Rajni Nigam616926.98
Jennifer R. Smith713218.16
Mary Shimoyama820035.46
Janan T. Eppig9830287.29
James M Reecy10646.73