Title
A pattern-based approach to a cell tracking ontology.
Abstract
Time-lapse microscopy has thoroughly transformed our understanding of biological motion and developmental dynamics from single cells to entire organisms. The increasing amount of cell tracking data demands the creation of tools to make extracted data searchable and interoperable between experiment and data types. In order to address that problem, the current paper reports on the progress in building the Cell Tracking Ontology (CTO): An ontology framework for describing, querying and integrating data from complementary experimental techniques in the domain of cell tracking experiments. CTO is based on a basic knowledge structure: the cellular genealogy serving as a backbone model to integrate specific biological ontologies into tracking data. As a first step we integrate the Phenotype and Trait Ontology (PATO) as one of the most relevant ontologies to annotate cell tracking experiments. The CTO requires both the integration of data on various levels of generality as well as the proper structuring of collected information. Therefore, in order to provide a sound foundation of the ontology, we have built on the rich body of work on top-level ontologies and established three generic ontology design patterns addressing three modeling challenges for properly representing cellular genealogies, i.e. representing entities existing in time, undergoing changes over time and their organization into more complex structures such as situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.procs.2019.09.237
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Semantic-Based Systems,Knowledge Representation,Management,Semantic annotation of images,videos,Ontologies
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Ontology,Biological Ontologies,Cell tracking,Computer science,Interoperability,Data type,Structuring,Generality
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
159
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patryk Burek100.34
Nico Scherf240.80
Heinrich Herre352759.57