title: The Adult Mouse Anatomical Dictionary: a tool for annotating and integrating data.
abstract: We have developed an ontology to provide standardized nomenclature for anatomical terms in the postnatal mouse. The Adult Mouse Anatomical Dictionary is structured as a directed acyclic graph, and is organized hierarchically both spatially and functionally. The ontology will be used to annotate and integrate different types of data pertinent to anatomy, such as gene expression patterns and phenotype information, which will contribute to an integrated description of biological phenomena in the mouse.
authors.affiliation: The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA. terryh@informatics.jax.org
authors.forename: Terry F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Hayamizu
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mangan
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Corradi
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kadin
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ringwald
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002965:Classification; D004014:Dictionaries as Topic; D051379:Mice / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled