Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Mottaz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2367626 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mottaz Anaïs A Yip Yum L YL Ruch Patrick P Veuthey Anne-Lise AL
BMC bioinformatics 20080429
<h4>Background</h4>Although the UniProt KnowledgeBase is not a medical-oriented database, it contains information on more than 2,000 human proteins involved in pathologies. However, these annotations are not standardized, which impairs the interoperability between biological and clinical resources. In order to make these data easily accessible to clinical researchers, we have developed a procedure to link diseases described in the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries to the MeSH disease terminology.<h4> ...[more]