title: Anatomical ontologies: names and places in biology.
abstract: Ontology has long been the preserve of philosophers and logicians. Recently, ideas from this field have been picked up by computer scientists as a basis for encoding knowledge and with the hope of achieving interoperability and intelligent system behavior. In bioinformatics, ontologies might allow hitherto impossible query and data-mining activities. We review the use of anatomy ontologies to represent space in biological organisms, specifically mouse and human.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. Richard.Baldock@hgu.mrc.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baldock
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burger
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000639:trends*; D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice