Ontology Lookup Service

July 6, 2010 — If you want to locate a gene ontology term, point your browser to the European Bioinformatics Institute and its Ontology Lookup Service. Enter the term names of search by term ID. If you don’t know what a “term ID” is, the service won’t be of much use to you. OLS, a spin-off of an…

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Taxonomies and Content Governance

July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…

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