Animal trait ontology: The importance and usefulness of a unified trait vocabulary for animal species

Ontologies help to identify and formally define the entities and relationships in specific domains of interest. Bio-ontologies, in particular, play a central role in the annotation, integration, analysis, and interpretation of biological data. Missing from the number of bio-ontologies is one that in...

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Published in:Journal of animal science 2008-06, Vol.86 (6), p.1485-1491
Main Authors: Hughes, L.M, Bao, J, Hu, Z.-L, Honavar, V, Reecy, J.M
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Animal productions
Animal Trait Ontology program
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Biology
Cattle
Chickens
Computational Biology - methods
computer software
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
genome
Genomics
Genotype & phenotype
Livestock
Male
National Animal Genome Research Program
Ontology
phenotype
research programs
Species Specificity
Swine
Terminology as Topic
Terrestrial animal productions
traits
USDA
Vertebrates
Vocabularies & taxonomies
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Chickens
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Vertebrates
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