Interoperability between phenotypes in research and healthcare terminologies--Investigating partial mappings between HPO and SNOMED CT.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Identifying partial mappings between two terminologies is of special importance when one terminology is finer-grained than the other, as is the case for the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), mainly used for research purposes, and SNOMED CT, mainly used in healthcare.

Authors

  • Ferdinand Dhombres
    National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA.
  • Olivier Bodenreider
    National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.