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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2011

Anatomy ontologies and potential users: bridging the gap.

Ravensara S Travillian, Tomasz Adamusiak, Tony Burdett, Michael Gruenberger, John Hancock, Ann-Marie Mallon, James Malone, Paul Schofield, Helen Parkinson

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Ravensara S TravillianEMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, UK. raven@ebi.ac.uk.
Tomasz Adamusiak
Tony Burdett
Michael Gruenberger
John Hancock
Ann-Marie Mallon
James Malone
Paul Schofield
Helen Parkinson

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Medical Research Council MC_U142684171
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motivationTo evaluate how well current anatomical ontologies fit the way real-world users apply anatomy terms in their data annotations.

methodsAnnotations from three diverse multi-species public-domain datasets provided a set of use cases for matching anatomical terms in two major anatomical ontologies (the Foundational Model of Anatomy and Uberon), using two lexical-matching applications (Zooma and Ontology Mapper).

resultsApproximately 1500 terms were identified; Uberon/Zooma mappings provided 286 matches, compared to the control and Ontology Mapper returned 319 matches. For the Foundational Model of Anatomy, Zooma returned 312 matches, and Ontology Mapper returned 397.

conclusionsOur results indicate that for our datasets the anatomical entities or concepts are embedded in user-generated complex terms, and while lexical mapping works, anatomy ontologies do not provide the majority of terms users supply when annotating data. Provision of searchable cross-products for compositional terms is a key requirement for using ontologies.

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PMCPMC3194170

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