Ontology highlight
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SUBMITTER: Bello SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3308153 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bello Susan M SM Richardson Joel E JE Davis Allan P AP Wiegers Thomas C TC Mattingly Carolyn J CJ Dolan Mary E ME Smith Cynthia L CL Blake Judith A JA Eppig Janan T JT
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation 20120320
Optimal curation of human diseases requires an ontology or structured vocabulary that contains terms familiar to end users, is robust enough to support multiple levels of annotation granularity, is limited to disease terms and is stable enough to avoid extensive reannotation following updates. At Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), we currently use disease terms from Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) to curate mouse models of human disease. While OMIM provides highly detailed disease record ...[more]