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.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
InfAcrOnt: calculating cross-ontology term similarities using information flow by a random walk
BMC Genomics Open Access 19 January 2018
-
Configurable pattern-based evolutionary biclustering of gene expression data
Algorithms for Molecular Biology Open Access 23 February 2013
-
Terminologies for text-mining; an experiment in the lipoprotein metabolism domain
BMC Bioinformatics Open Access 25 April 2008
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$209.00 per year
only $17.42 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on SpringerLink
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Sowa, J. Knowledge Representation. Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations (Brooks/Cole, New York, 2000).
Mizoguchi, R. New Generation Computing 22/2, 193–220 (2004).
Schulze-Kremer, S. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Syst. Mol. Biol. 5, 272–275 (1997).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Soldatova, L., King, R. Are the current ontologies in biology good ontologies?. Nat Biotechnol 23, 1095–1098 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0905-1095
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0905-1095
This article is cited by
-
InfAcrOnt: calculating cross-ontology term similarities using information flow by a random walk
BMC Genomics (2018)
-
Configurable pattern-based evolutionary biclustering of gene expression data
Algorithms for Molecular Biology (2013)
-
The Monocyte Locomotion Inhibitory Factor (MLIF) Produced by Entamoeba histolytica Alters the Expression of Genes Related to the Wound-Healing Process
International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics (2012)
-
Anti-inflammatory defense mechanisms of Entamoeba histolytica
Inflammation Research (2011)
-
Terminologies for text-mining; an experiment in the lipoprotein metabolism domain
BMC Bioinformatics (2008)