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Organizing phenotypic data—a semantic data model for anatomy

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العنوان: Organizing phenotypic data—a semantic data model for anatomy
المؤلفون: Lars Vogt
المصدر: Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2019)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: LCC:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Phenotypic data, Semantic data model for anatomy, Instance anatomy knowledge graph, Anatomy, ontology, Zoology, Knowledge management, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7
الوصف: Abstract Background Currently, almost all morphological data are published as unstructured free text descriptions. This not only brings about terminological problems regarding semantic transparency, which hampers their re-use by non-experts, but the data cannot be parsed by computers either, which in turn hampers their integration across many fields in the life sciences, including genomics, systems biology, development, medicine, evolution, ecology, and systematics. With an ever-increasing amount of available ontologies and the development of adequate semantic technology, however, a solution to this problem becomes available. Instead of free text descriptions, morphological data can be recorded, stored, and communicated through the Web in the form of highly formalized and structured directed graphs (semantic graphs) that use ontology terms and URIs as terminology. Results After introducing an instance-based approach of recording morphological descriptions as semantic graphs (i.e., Semantic Instance Anatomy Knowledge Graphs) and discussing accompanying metadata graphs, I propose a general scheme of how to efficiently organize the resulting graphs in a tuple store framework based on instances of defined named graph ontology classes. The use of such named graph resources allows meaningful fragmentation of the data, which in turn enables subsequent specification of all kinds of data views for managing and accessing morphological data. Conclusions Morphological data that comply with the here proposed semantic data model will not only be computer-parsable but also re-usable by non-experts and could be better integrated with other sources of data in the life sciences. This would allow morphology as a discipline to further participate in eScience and Big Data.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2041-1480
Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-019-0204-6; https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1480
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-019-0204-6
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/99e309eda02c4022a2ab1b1df6dd9eb5
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.99e309eda02c4022a2ab1b1df6dd9eb5
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20411480
DOI:10.1186/s13326-019-0204-6