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Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine: Success Stories and Challenging Issues

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Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2008)

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In this presentation, we review some examples of successful biomedical data integration projects in which ontologies play an important role, including the integration of genomic data based on Gene Ontology annotations, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project, and semantic mashups created by the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences community.

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  1. Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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Bodenreider, O. (2008). Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine: Success Stories and Challenging Issues. In: Bairoch, A., Cohen-Boulakia, S., Froidevaux, C. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69828-9_1

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