The range of publicly available biomedical data is enormous and is expanding fast. This
expansion means that researchers now face a hurdle to extracting the data they need from …

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology Annotator is an ontology-based web service
for annotation of textual biomedical data with biomedical ontology concepts. The biomedical …

Background Researchers in biomedical informatics use ontologies and terminologies to
annotate their data in order to facilitate data integration and translational discoveries. As the …

Background There is currently a gap between the rich and expressive collection of
published biomedical ontologies, and the natural language expression of biomedical papers …

Abstract The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is developing a system for
automated, ontology-based access to online biomedical resources. The system's indexing …

The information explosion in biology makes it difficult for researchers to stay abreast of
current biomedical knowledge and to make sense of the massive amounts of online …

Background Ontologies and controlled terminologies have become increasingly important in
biomedical research. Researchers use ontologies to annotate their data with ontology terms …

The volume of publicly available genomic scale data is increasing. Genomic datasets in
public repositories are annotated with free-text fields describing the pathological state of the …

Background Many ontologies have been developed in biology and these ontologies
increasingly contain large volumes of formalized knowledge commonly expressed in the …

Abstract The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the National Centers
for Biomedical Computing funded under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. Contributing to the …