Describing the breakbone fever: IDODEN, an ontology for dengue fever.

Journal: PLoS neglected tropical diseases
PMID: 25646954

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ontologies represent powerful tools in information technology because they enhance interoperability and facilitate, among other things, the construction of optimized search engines. To address the need to expand the toolbox available for the control and prevention of vector-borne diseases we embarked on the construction of specific ontologies. We present here IDODEN, an ontology that describes dengue fever, one of the globally most important diseases that are transmitted by mosquitoes.

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  • Elvira Mitraka
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20892-9760, USA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20892-9760, USA, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK and McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
  • Pantelis Topalis
    Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Vicky Dritsou
    Centre of Functional Genomics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
  • Emmanuel Dialynas
    Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Christos Louis
    Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece; Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; Centre of Functional Genomics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

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