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Commentary
Nature Biotechnology  23, 1095 - 1098 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nbt0905-1095

Are the current ontologies in biology good ontologies?

Larisa N Soldatova & Ross D King

Larisa N. Soldatova and Ross D. King are at the Computer Science Department, The University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DB, UK. lss@aber.ac.uk

The failure of many bio-ontologies to follow international standards for ontology design and description is hampering their application and threatens to restrict their future use.

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