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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
Event ontology: a pathway-centric ontology for biological processes
Tatsuya Kushida1, Toshihisa Takagi, Ken Ichiro Fukuda
1Institute for Bioinformatics Research and Development, Japan Science and Technology Agency, AIST Bio-IT Research Building, 2-42 Aomi, Koutou-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan. kushida-tatsuya@aist.ac.jp
Abstract:
Event ontology is a new biomedical ontology developed to annotate pathway components in a pathway database. It organizes the concepts and terms of sub-pathways, pathways, biological phenomena, experimental conditions, medications, and external stimuli appearing in biological pathways (e.g. signal transduction, disease-, metabolic-, molecular interaction-, genetic interaction pathways, etc.). Concepts in the Event ontology are extracted manually from scientific literature. Each term has links to external databases such as Gene Ontology, Reactome, KEGG, BioCyc, and PubMed.
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