eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data

Table 1.

Existing Ontologies That Are Relevant to Human Expression Data




Website

Scope
CBIL http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/anatomy.php3 Adult anatomy
Cytomer http://www.biobase.de/pages/products/cytomer.html Human developmental anatomy
HUMAT http://www.ana.ed.ac.uk/anatomy/database/humat/ Human developmental anatomy
EPOdb http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EpoDB/release/version_2.2/controlled.vocab.html Human anatomy, developmental stage, cell type
GeneX http://www.ncgr.org/genex/ Human gene expression
MeSH http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html Clinical ontology
UMLS http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html Clinical ontology
GALEN http://www.opengalen.org/ Clinical ontology
SNOMED http://www.snomed.org/main.html Clinical ontology
ICD-9-CM
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/icd9/abticd9.htm
Clinical ontology

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