Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en
This paper provides a survey of the state of the art in terminologies and ontologies applied to Biology and Medicine. Not intending to be fully comprehensive, we describe some of the most relevant resources that currently attract interest from industry and academia. We introduce a description framew...
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| description | This paper provides a survey of the state of the art in terminologies and ontologies applied to Biology and Medicine. Not intending to be fully comprehensive, we describe some of the most relevant resources that currently attract interest from industry and academia. We introduce a description framework and compare the systems in terms of their architectural elements, their expressiveness, and coverage, as well as analyze the nature of entities they denote. In particular, we scrutinize the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the Gene Ontology (GO), the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), the Generalized Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures (openGALEN), the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), and the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-494aef89d5c44bbdaaaed20f806b3fa32022-12-21T23:06:58ZengInstituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)RECIIS1981-62782009-04-0131718Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239enFrederico FreitasStefan SchulzEduardo MoraesThis paper provides a survey of the state of the art in terminologies and ontologies applied to Biology and Medicine. Not intending to be fully comprehensive, we describe some of the most relevant resources that currently attract interest from industry and academia. We introduce a description framework and compare the systems in terms of their architectural elements, their expressiveness, and coverage, as well as analyze the nature of entities they denote. In particular, we scrutinize the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the Gene Ontology (GO), the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), the Generalized Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures (openGALEN), the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), and the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry.http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/239/249Terminologiesontologiesbiologymedicine |
| spellingShingle | Frederico Freitas Stefan Schulz Eduardo Moraes Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en RECIIS Terminologies ontologies biology medicine |
| title | Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en |
| title_full | Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en |
| title_fullStr | Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en |
| title_full_unstemmed | Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en |
| title_short | Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i1.239en |
| title_sort | survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine doi 10 3395 reciis v3i1 239en |
| topic | Terminologies ontologies biology medicine |
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