Thematic issue of the Second combined Bio-ontologies and Phenotypes Workshop.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
Published Date: Dec 12, 2016

Abstract

This special issue covers selected papers from the 18th Bio-Ontologies Special Interest Group meeting and Phenotype Day, which took place at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Dublin in 2015. The papers presented in this collection range from descriptions of software tools supporting ontology development and annotation of objects with ontology terms, to applications of text mining for structured relation extraction involving diseases and phenotypes, to detailed proposals for new ontologies and mapping of existing ontologies. Together, the papers consider a range of representational issues in bio-ontology development, and demonstrate the applicability of bio-ontologies to support biological and clinical knowledge-based decision making and analysis.The full set of papers in the Thematic Issue is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/sig .

Authors

  • Karin Verspoor
    Dept of Computing and Information Systems, School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Anika Oellrich
    The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
  • Nigel Collier
    Language Technology Lab (LTL), Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL), University of Cambridge, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP UK.
  • Tudor Groza
    The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
  • Philippe Rocca-Serra
    The University of Oxford, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford, UK.
  • Larisa Soldatova
    4Brunel University London, London, UK.
  • Michel Dumontier
    Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.
  • Nigam Shah
    Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.

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