The National Center for Biomedical Ontology

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is now in its seventh year. The goals of this National Center for Biomedical Computing are to: create and maintain a repository of biomedical ontologies and terminologies; build tools and web services to enable the use of ontologies and terminologies in cl...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2012-03, Vol.19 (2), p.190-195
Main Authors: Musen, Mark A, Noy, Natalya F, Shah, Nigam H, Whetzel, Patricia L, Chute, Christopher G, Story, Margaret-Anne, Smith, Barry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brief Communication
Forecasting
Goals
Medical Informatics
United States
User-Computer Interface
Vocabulary, Controlled
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Summary:The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is now in its seventh year. The goals of this National Center for Biomedical Computing are to: create and maintain a repository of biomedical ontologies and terminologies; build tools and web services to enable the use of ontologies and terminologies in clinical and translational research; educate their trainees and the scientific community broadly about biomedical ontology and ontology-based technology and best practices; and collaborate with a variety of groups who develop and use ontologies and terminologies in biomedicine. The centerpiece of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a web-based resource known as BioPortal. BioPortal makes available for research in computationally useful forms more than 270 of the world's biomedical ontologies and terminologies, and supports a wide range of web services that enable investigators to use the ontologies to annotate and retrieve data, to generate value sets and special-purpose lexicons, and to perform advanced analytics on a wide range of biomedical data.
ISSN:1067-5027
1527-974X
DOI:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000523