The CMO Survey - Highlights and Insights Report - Spring 2024
UniProt & Ontologies
1. UniProt & Ontologies How ontologies are used in the context of a large life sciences database Eric Jain Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva April 2007
7. UniProtKB 4.5M entries reviewed 0.3M Species & organelles Description of function etc Keywords & GO Description of sequence features Sequence(s) Literature Citations Cross-References Protein & gene names
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9. unique identifier names and synonyms relationships within the ontology stable! mapped to other ontologies human-readable definitions machine-readable definitions
24. Summary Increased use of ontologies is inevitable as data volumes grow. UniProt has (or is in the process of introducing) several ontologies. What data will be "ontologized" and how detailed the ontologies are depends on your feedback ! [email_address]