Current Status of Biomedical Ontologies: Developments in 2006

Author

Sidhu, Amandeep S. ; Dillon, Tharam S. ; Chang, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 Feb. 2007

Firstpage

581

Lastpage

585

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to survey existing biomedical ontologies and their developments in 2006. This paper discusses features of biomedical ontologies that allow true information integration in biomedical domain. The paper is compilation of several biomedical ontologies like UMLS, Gene Ontology, Protein Ontology, MGED Ontology, and TAMBIS Ontology that have developed, often reflecting mere relations of ´association´ between what are called ´concepts´, and serving primarily the purposes of information extraction from on-line biomedical literature and databases.

Keywords

database management systems; information retrieval; medical information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); MGED Ontology; TAMBIS ontology; UMLS; biomedical ontology; gene ontology; information extraction; protein ontology; Bioinformatics; Data mining; Database systems; Ecosystems; Information retrieval; Object oriented databases; Ontologies; Protein engineering; Sequences; Unified modeling language; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Ontologies; Biomedical Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference, 2007. DEST '07. Inaugural IEEE-IES

Conference_Location

Cairns

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0470-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0470-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEST.2007.372042

Filename

4233776