Background: Biosample collections and biobank information systems have become a key
enabler for medical research. Therefore it is important to identify potentially relevant …

Abstract The interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Clinical Decision
Support (CDS) systems is a major challenge in the medical informatics field. International …

There has been an emergence of various ontologies describing data from either the clinical
or biological domains. Associated with this are attempts to develop systems that integrate …

Background Biobanking necessitates extensive integration of data to allow data analysis
and specimen sharing. Ontologies have been demonstrated to be a promising approach in …

The increasing interest of the biomedical community in ontologies can be exemplified by the
availability of hundreds of biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies, and by the …

Background Biomedical ontologies contain a wealth of metadata that constitutes a
fundamental infrastructural resource for text mining. For several reasons, redundancies exist …

Biomedical ontologies play an important role for information extraction in the biomedical
domain. We present a workflow for updating automatically biomedical ontologies, composed …

Reuse of ontologies is important for achieving better interoperability among health systems
and relieving knowledge engineers from the burden of developing ontologies from scratch …

Background Biobanks are a critical resource for translational science. Recently, semantic
web technologies such as ontologies have been found useful in retrieving research data …

There has been an emergence of various biomedical ontologies that seek to integrate data
from the clinical and biological domains. These ontologies are attempts to relate clinical and …