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SUBMITTER: Loebe F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3448528 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loebe Frank F Stumpf Frank F Hoehndorf Robert R Herre Heinrich H
Journal of biomedical semantics 20120921
<h4>Background</h4>Phenotype ontologies are used in species-specific databases for the annotation of mutagenesis experiments and to characterize human diseases. The Entity-Quality (EQ) formalism is a means to describe complex phenotypes based on one or more affected entities and a quality. EQ-based definitions have been developed for many phenotype ontologies, including the Human and Mammalian Phenotype ontologies.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyze formalizations of complex phenotype descriptions in the ...[more]