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BioMed Central, Genome Biology, 1(13), p. R5

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r5

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Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology

Journal article published in 2012 by Christopher J. Mungall, Carlo Torniai, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Suzanna E. Lewis, Melissa A. Haendel ORCID
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Abstract

Abstract We present Uberon, an integrated cross-species ontology consisting of over 6,500 classes representing a variety of anatomical entities, organized according to traditional anatomical classification criteria. The ontology represents structures in a species-neutral way and includes extensive associations to existing species-centric anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of model organism and human data. Uberon provides a necessary bridge between anatomical structures in different taxa for cross-species inference. It uses novel methods for representing taxonomic variation, and has proved to be essential for translational phenotype analyses. Uberon is available at http://uberon.org