Community: Learning About Ontologies

What are Ontologies?

An ontology is a kind of controlled vocabulary of well defined terms with specified relationships between those terms, capable of interpretation by both humans and computers.

Biomedical ontologies are being developed to express data in ways that can be read by computers, and shared between experiments and data sources to accommodate the proliferation of data in this new information age.

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