Talking welfare: the importance of a common language.
Ontologies describing mouse phenotypes and pathology are well established and becoming more universally used (Smith and Eppig in Mamm Genome 23:653, 2012; Scofield et al. in J Biomed Semant 4:18, 2013). However, the language used to describe and disseminate cage-side observations is less well developed. This article explores the hurdles to unifying a language and terminology, and introduces our initial attempt to do so.
Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK. s.wells@har.mrc.ac.uk.
James
J
Bussell
Mary Lyon Centre, MRC Harwell, Nineteenth St, Didcot, OXON, OX11 0RD, UK.
Sara E
SE
Wells
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