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Area of Science:

  • Biology
  • Genomics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Phenotypic data is vast but difficult to analyze due to its current format.
  • A lack of standardized language for phenotypes and their contexts is a major bottleneck in biology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To survey the current phenomics landscape, including data resources and handling.
  • To highlight the need for a community-wide, consensus-based language for phenotypes.
  • To present the potential of computable phenotypes for cross-domain integration.

Main Methods:

  • Survey of existing phenomics data resources and handling methods.
  • Analysis of progress in capturing phenotype descriptions.
  • Illustrative example of data integration enabled by computable phenotypes.

Main Results:

  • Current phenomic data formats impede efficient and reproducible analysis.
  • A significant gap exists in standardized, interpretable language for describing phenotypes.
  • Computable phenotypes offer a pathway to integrate diverse biological data domains.

Conclusions:

  • A community-wide, consensus-based, computable language for phenotypes is essential for biological data integration.
  • Support from the biology community, publishers, and funding agencies is needed to overcome data barriers.
  • Facilitating analytical reproducibility requires standardized phenotype data descriptions.