: Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson, Richard Baldock
: Albert Burger, Duncan Davidson, Richard Baldock
: Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics Principles and Practice
: Springer-Verlag
: 9781846288852
: 1
: CHF 135.40
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: Medizin
: English
: 354
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This book provides a timely and first-of-its-kind collection of papers on anatomy ontologies. It is interdisciplinary in its approach, bringing together the relevant expertise from computing and biomedical studies. The book aims to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the foundations of anatomical ontologies and the-state-of-the-art in terms of existing tools and applications. It also highlights challenges that remain today.

Foreword6
Preface9
Contents11
List of Contributors13
Part I Existing Anatomy Ontologies for Human, Model Organisms and Plants17
1 Anatomical Ontologies for Model Organisms: The Fungi and Animals18
2 Plant Structure Ontology (PSO) A Morphological and Anatomical Ontology of Flowering Plants41
3 Anatomy for Clinical Terminology57
4 The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology72
5 Towards a Disease Ontology131
Part II Engineering and Linking of Anatomy Ontologies143
6 Ontology Alignment and Merging144
7 COBrA and COBrA-CT: Ontology Engineering Tools161
8 XSPAN A Cross-Species Anatomy Network173
9 Searching Biomedical Literature with Anatomy Ontologies186
Part III Anatomy Ontologies and Spatio-Temporal Atlases204
10 Anatomical Ontologies: Linking Names to Places in Biology205
11 Time in Anatomy220
12 The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas255
13 The Smart Atlas: Spatial and Semantic Strategies for Multiscale Integration of Brain Data272
Part IV Anatomy Ontologies Modelling Principles292
14 Modelling Principles and Methodologies Relations in Anatomical Ontologies293
15 Modeling Principles and Methodologies - Spatial Representation and Reasoning310
16 CARO The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology330
Index353