Survey of current terminologies and ontologies in biology and medicine

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Freitas, Fred, Schulz, Stefan, Moraes, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Repositorio:RECIIS (Online)
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br:article/816
Acceso en línea:https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/816
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Terminologies
ontologies
biology
medicine
terminologias
ontologias
biologia
medicina
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Sumario: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.