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MacMullen, W. J. (2005). Inter-database annotation linkages in model organism databases. In Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Vol. 42, Charlotte, NC, October 28-November 2, 2005.
Abstract:
Inter-database linkage via annotations is one approach to the integration of
knowledge in the biomedical domain, which is often fragmented by specialization.
This pilot study examined annotations in ten model organism databases and the
Gene Ontology (GO) to assess explicit and implicit linkages between organisms.
The databases had similar annotation processes, content, and knowledge, with
some variation due to organizational objectives and technology infrastructure.
While all
databases had the potential to be linked to all others via GO, only some
databases had non-GO links to others. This may be due in part to a lack of
biologically significant relationships among some of the organisms, or that
putative relationships between them that exist in GO have not yet been explored.