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Biomedical ontologies are crucial for managing knowledge, integrating data, and supporting decisions in research. They enable standardization, interoperability, and knowledge discovery, overcoming barriers to adoption.

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Biomedical Informatics
Computational Biology
Health Informatics

Background:

Biomedical ontologies are essential for organizing complex health data.
Their application spans knowledge management, data integration, and decision support.

Purpose of the Study:

To illustrate the practical applications of biomedical ontologies.
To highlight their role in knowledge management, data integration, and decision support.

Main Methods:

Examined functional perspectives of impactful biomedical ontologies.
Analyzed applications from operational systems and recent literature.

Main Results:

Key ontologies include SNOMED CT, LOINC, Gene Ontology, RxNorm, MeSH, and UMLS.
Ontologies facilitate knowledge management, data integration, semantic interoperability, and decision support.
Applications include data indexing, retrieval, mapping, exchange, and natural language processing.

Conclusions:

Biomedical ontologies are vital for research, providing vocabulary for standardization and computable knowledge.
Discussed challenges hindering the broader adoption of ontologies in biomedical applications.