The GWAS Catalog delivers a high-quality curated collection of all published genome-wide
association studies enabling investigations to identify causal variants, understand disease …

The value of any kind of data is greatly enhanced when it exists in a form that allows it to be
integrated with other data. One approach to integration is through the annotation of multiple …

Biomedical ontologies provide essential domain knowledge to drive data integration, information
retrieval, data annotation, natural-language processing and decision support. BioPortal …

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the National Centers for
Biomedical Computing funded under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Contributing to the national …

The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) is an ontology that provides terms with
precisely defined meanings to describe all aspects of how investigations in the biological and …

… Patricia L Whetzel , Patricia L Whetzel … Mark A Musen, Natalya F Noy, Nigam H Shah,
Patricia L Whetzel, Christopher G Chute, Margaret-Anne Story, Barry Smith, and the NCBO team, …

Background Sharing of microarray data within the research community has been greatly
facilitated by the development of the disclosure and communication standards MIAME and …

Efficient tools for data management and integration are essential for many aspects of high-throughput
biology. In particular, annotations of genes and human genetic variants are …

Motivation: The generation of large amounts of microarray data and the need to share these
data bring challenges for both data management and annotation and highlights the need for …

Background Translational medicine requires the integration of knowledge using heterogeneous
data from health care to the life sciences. Here, we describe a collaborative effort to …