Disease Ontology: improving and unifying disease annotations across species

• Main Authors: Susan M. Bello (Author), Mary Shimoyama (Author), Elvira Mitraka (Author), Stanley J. F. Laulederkind (Author), Cynthia L. Smith (Author), Janan T. Eppig (Author), Lynn M. Schriml (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Model organisms are vital to uncovering the mechanisms of human disease and developing new therapeutic tools. Researchers collecting and integrating relevant model organism and/or human data often apply disparate terminologies (vocabularies and ontologies), making comparisons and inferences difficul...