title: Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology.
abstract: We present Uberon, an integrated cross-species ontology consisting of over 6,500 classes representing a variety of anatomical entities, organized according to traditional anatomical classification criteria. The ontology represents structures in a species-neutral way and includes extensive associations to existing species-centric anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of model organism and human data. Uberon provides a necessary bridge between anatomical structures in different taxa for cross-species inference. It uses novel methods for representing taxonomic variation, and has proved to be essential for translational phenotype analyses. Uberon is available at http://uberon.org.
authors.affiliation: Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cycltotron Road MS 64-121, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. CJMungall@lbl.gov
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Mungall
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Torniai
authors.forename: Georgios V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Gkoutos
authors.forename: Suzanna E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Haendel
mesh_terms: D000717:Anatomy, Comparative; D002965:Classification; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity