RRC ID 18953
著者 Walls RL, Athreya B, Cooper L, Elser J, Gandolfo MA, Jaiswal P, Mungall CJ, Preece J, Rensing S, Smith B, Stevenson DW.
タイトル Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science.
ジャーナル Am J Bot
Abstract PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Bio-ontologies are essential tools for accessing and analyzing the rapidly growing pool of plant genomic and phenomic data. Ontologies provide structured vocabularies to support consistent aggregation of data and a semantic framework for automated analyses and reasoning. They are a key component of the semantic web.
METHODS:This paper provides background on what bio-ontologies are, why they are relevant to botany, and the principles of ontology development. It includes an overview of ontologies and related resources that are relevant to plant science, with a detailed description of the Plant Ontology (PO). We discuss the challenges of building an ontology that covers all green plants (Viridiplantae).
KEY RESULTS:Ontologies can advance plant science in four keys areas: (1) comparative genetics, genomics, phenomics, and development; (2) taxonomy and systematics; (3) semantic applications; and (4) education.
CONCLUSIONS:Bio-ontologies offer a flexible framework for comparative plant biology, based on common botanical understanding. As genomic and phenomic data become available for more species, we anticipate that the annotation of data with ontology terms will become less centralized, while at the same time, the need for cross-species queries will become more common, causing more researchers in plant science to turn to ontologies.
巻・号 99(8)
ページ 1263-75
公開日 2012-8-1
DOI 10.3732/ajb.1200222
PII ajb.1200222
PMID 22847540
PMC PMC3492881
MeSH Botany / methods Computational Biology / methods* Data Interpretation, Statistical Database Management Systems Databases, Factual Genome, Plant / genetics Genomics Molecular Sequence Annotation Phenotype Plants / anatomy & histology Plants / classification Plants / genetics* Semantics Terminology as Topic Vocabulary, Controlled
IF 3.038
引用数 57
WOS 分野 PLANT SCIENCES
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