TY - JOUR
T1 - National Center for Biomedical Ontology
T2 - Advancing biomedicine through structured organization of scientific knowledge
AU - Rubin, Daniel L.
AU - Lewis, Suzanna E.
AU - Mungall, Chris J.
AU - Misra, Sima
AU - Westerfield, Monte
AU - Ashburner, Michael
AU - Sim, Ida
AU - Chute, Christopher G.
AU - Solbrig, Harold
AU - Storey, Margaret Anne
AU - Smith, Barry
AU - Day-Richter, John
AU - Noy, Natalya F.
AU - Musen, Mark A.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a consortium that comprises leading informaticians, biologists, clinicians, and ontologists, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap, to develop innovative technology and methods that allow scientists to record, manage, and disseminate biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form. The goals of the Center are (1) to help unify the divergent and isolated efforts in ontology development by promoting high quality open-source, standards-based tools to create, manage, and use ontologies, (2) to create new software tools so that scientists can use ontologies to annotate and analyze biomedical data, (3) to provide a national resource for the ongoing evaluation, integration, and evolution of biomedical ontologies and associated tools and theories in the context of driving biomedical projects (DBPs), and (4) to disseminate the tools and resources of the Center and to identify, evaluate, and communicate best practices of ontology development to the biomedical community. Through the research activities within the Center, collaborations with the DBPs, and interactions with the biomedical community, our goal is to help scientists to work more effectively in the e-science paradigm, enhancing experiment design, experiment execution, data analysis, information synthesis, hypothesis generation and testing, and understand human disease.
AB - The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a consortium that comprises leading informaticians, biologists, clinicians, and ontologists, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap, to develop innovative technology and methods that allow scientists to record, manage, and disseminate biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form. The goals of the Center are (1) to help unify the divergent and isolated efforts in ontology development by promoting high quality open-source, standards-based tools to create, manage, and use ontologies, (2) to create new software tools so that scientists can use ontologies to annotate and analyze biomedical data, (3) to provide a national resource for the ongoing evaluation, integration, and evolution of biomedical ontologies and associated tools and theories in the context of driving biomedical projects (DBPs), and (4) to disseminate the tools and resources of the Center and to identify, evaluate, and communicate best practices of ontology development to the biomedical community. Through the research activities within the Center, collaborations with the DBPs, and interactions with the biomedical community, our goal is to help scientists to work more effectively in the e-science paradigm, enhancing experiment design, experiment execution, data analysis, information synthesis, hypothesis generation and testing, and understand human disease.
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U2 - 10.1089/omi.2006.10.185
DO - 10.1089/omi.2006.10.185
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16901225
AN - SCOPUS:33748040760
SN - 1536-2310
VL - 10
SP - 185
EP - 198
JO - OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology
JF - OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology
IS - 2
ER -