ontologies
Ontologies in Biomedical Domain
- Gene Ontology (GO)
- Controlled vocabulary for gene annotation
- available in XML
- contains ontologies for Molecular Function, Biological Process and Cellular Component
- UMLS Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
- a very large metathesaurus built from thesauri, classifications, coding systemts, and lists of controlled terms that are developed by different organizations
- a concept is defined as a cluster of terms representing the same meaning
- 1.75 million English terms drawn from more than syxty families of medical vocabulary, organized in some 875000 concepts.
- includes the SPECIALIST lexicon, containing syntactic, morphological, and orthographic information on medical terms, and various software tools
- MeSH
- controlled Thesaurus by the National Library of Medicine
- very broad scope
- integrated into Pubmed/MedLine search facility
- not everyone happy with the contents (e.g. see Barry Smith, COLING04)
- ICD is the International Classification of Diseases
- outdated, but comprehensive
- Enzyme Nomenclature
- a list and classification of enzymes
- links to other info sources
Acknowledgments : some of the material in this page originates from here