Ontological Annotation of Data
Introduction This is a blogged article on the how scientific data, specifically biomedical data, is annotated with ontologies. It introduces the kinds of data that are annotated, the people who...
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Robert Stevens*, Alan Rector* and Duncan Hull† * School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK † EMBL Outstation – Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute,...
View ArticleSeparating Concepts from Labels
When creating ontologies it is good practice to separate the concept and the label or term used to refer to that concept. Take the category or class that the object that sits on the top of your neck...
View ArticleThere is no “other” category: When to avoid “miscellaneous”
It is often tempting when describing a series of subclasses that you know are not exhaustive to add a class labelled as “Other” or “Miscellaneous”. This is generally seen to be a bad idea for a series...
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