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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2014

Limbform: a functional ontology-based database of limb regeneration experiments.

Daniel Lobo, Erica B Feldman, Michelle Shah, Taylor J Malone, Michael Levin

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel LoboCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Erica B FeldmanCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Michelle ShahCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Taylor J MaloneCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Michael LevinCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Avenue, Suite 4600, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Biophysical controls of vertebrate organ regenerationR01GM078484 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI LEVIN, MICHAEL · 2008 to 2011
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM078484NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryThe ability of certain organisms to completely regenerate lost limbs is a fascinating process, far from solved. Despite the extraordinary published efforts during the past centuries of scientists performing amputations, transplantations and molecular experiments, no mechanistic model exists yet that can completely explain patterning during the limb regeneration process. The lack of a centralized repository to enable the efficient mining of this huge dataset is hindering the discovery of comprehensive models of limb regeneration. Here, we introduce Limbform (Limb formalization), a centralized database of published limb regeneration experiments. In contrast to natural language or text-based ontologies, Limbform is based on a functional ontology using mathematical graphs to represent unambiguously limb phenotypes and manipulation procedures. The centralized database currently contains >800 published limb regeneration experiments comprising many model organisms, including salamanders, frogs, insects, crustaceans and arachnids. The database represents an extraordinary resource for mining the existing knowledge of functional data in this field; furthermore, its mathematical nature based on a functional ontology will pave the way for artificial intelligence tools applied to the discovery of the sought-after comprehensive limb regeneration models.

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Biological OntologiesDatabases, FactualRegenerationExtremitiesPhenotype

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PMID25170026
PMCPMC4253831
OpenAlexW1989893435

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