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

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 …

Background Our group has developed a useful shared software framework for performing,
versioning, sharing and viewing Web annotations of a number of kinds, using an open …

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 …

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 …

Ontologies are becoming critical to e-Science, but there are challenges for the community to
find the ontologies relevant to their work, to declare mappings among related ontologies …

The abundance and unstructured nature of biomedical texts, be it clinical or research
content, impose significant challenges for the effective and efficient use of information and …

The complex questions and analyses posed by biologists, as well as the diverse data
resources they develop, require the fusion of evidence from different, independently …

While most ontologies have been used only by the groups who created them and for their
initially defined purposes, the Gene Ontology (GO), an evolving structured controlled …