MIRO: guidelines for minimum information for the reporting of an ontology.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Creation and use of ontologies has become a mainstream activity in many disciplines, in particular, the biomedical domain. Ontology developers often disseminate information about these ontologies in peer-reviewed ontology description reports. There appears to be, however, a high degree of variability in the content of these reports. Often, important details are omitted such that it is difficult to gain a sufficient understanding of the ontology, its content and method of creation.

Authors

  • Nicolas Matentzoglu
    School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. nicolas.matentzoglu@manchester.ac.uk.
  • James Malone
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
  • Chris Mungall
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • Robert Stevens
    School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. Electronic address: robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk.