DermO; an ontology for the description of dermatologic disease.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
Published Date: Jun 13, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There have been repeated initiatives to produce standard nosologies and terminologies for cutaneous disease, some dedicated to the domain and some part of bigger terminologies such as ICD-10. Recently, formally structured terminologies, ontologies, have been widely developed in many areas of biomedical research. Primarily, these address the aim of providing comprehensive working terminologies for domains of knowledge, but because of the knowledge contained in the relationships between terms they can also be used computationally for many purposes.

Authors

  • Hannah M Fisher
    Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK.
  • Robert Hoehndorf
    Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 KAUST, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia. robert.hoehndorf@kaust.edu.sa.
  • Bruno S Bazelato
    Dept. of Computer Science, Llandinam Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DB, UK.
  • Soheil S Dadras
    Dept. Dermatology and Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263, Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
  • Lloyd E King
    Dept. of Medicine, Div. Dermatology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Georgios V Gkoutos
    Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; MRC Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), London, United Kingdom; NIHR Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  • John P Sundberg
    The Jackson Laboratory, 600, Main Street, Bar Harbor Maine, ME 04609-1500, USA.
  • Paul N Schofield
    Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK. pns12@cam.ac.uk.

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