Inderscience, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 3(15), p. 214
DOI: 10.1504/ijdmb.2016.077072
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Identification of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has been significantly improved over the past decade. On the other hand, semantic annotation of ncRNA data is facing critical challenges due to the lack of a comprehensive ontology to serve as common data elements and data exchange standards in the field. We developed the Non-Coding RNA Ontology (NCRO) to handle this situation. By providing a formally defined ncRNA controlled vocabulary, the NCRO aims to fill a specific and highly needed niche in semantic annotation of large amounts of ncRNA biological and clinical data. Int J Data Min Bioinform 2016; 15(3):214-232.