Paper Info
Title
Biomedical ontologies: a functional perspective.
Abstract
The information explosion in biology makes it difficult for researchers to stay abreast of current biomedical knowledge and to make sense of the massive amounts of online information. Ontologiesspecifications of the entities, their attributes and relationships among the entities in a domain of discourseare increasingly enabling biomedical researchers to accomplish these tasks. In fact, bio-ontologies are beginning to proliferate in step with accruing biological data. The myriad of ontologies being created enables researchers not only to solve some of the problems in handling the data explosion but also introduces new challenges. One of the key difficulties in realizing the full potential of ontologies in biomedical research is the isolation of various communities involved: some workers spend their career developing ontologies and ontology-related tools, while few researchers (biologists and physicians) know how ontologies can accelerate their research. The objective of this review is to give an overview of biomedical ontology in practical terms by providing a functional perspectivedescribing how bio-ontologies can and are being used. As biomedical scientists begin to recognize the many different ways ontologies enable biomedical research, they will drive the emergence of new computer applications that will help them exploit the wealth of research data now at their fingertips.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/bib/bbm059
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ontologies,annotation,data analysis
Ontology (information science),Data science,Data mining,Ontology,Know-how,Open Biomedical Ontologies,Computer science,IDEF5,Exploit,Bioinformatics,Information explosion,Documentation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
1
1467-5463
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
78
4.19
33
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel L. Rubin11645145.14
Nigam Shah221220.11
Natalya Fridman Noy35006381.51