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Bio-ontologies—fast and furious

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 773–774 (2004)Cite this article

These days, the term 'bio-ontologies' permeates discussions of scientific data integration and exploration. Beyond dictionaries or thesauri, bio-ontologies formally represent relationships between defined biological concepts, such that the vocabularies can be used both by humans and by computers to exchange and explore information1,2,3,4,5. The pace with which bio-ontologies are implemented and adopted by the scientific research community will have a significant impact on the ability to integrate, explore and infer knowledge from scientific data. This development will also influence the evolution of traditional scientific publishing towards reports that are seamlessly linked to online informatics resources.

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Blake, J. Bio-ontologies—fast and furious. Nat Biotechnol 22, 773–774 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0604-773

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