title: Special issue on bio-ontologies and phenotypes.
abstract: The bio-ontologies and phenotypes special issue includes eight papers selected from the 11 papers presented at the Bio-Ontologies SIG (Special Interest Group) and the Phenotype Day at ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) conference in Boston in 2014. The selected papers span a wide range of topics including the automated re-use and update of ontologies, quality assessment of ontological resources, and the systematic description of phenotype variation, driven by manual, semi- and fully automatic means.
authors.affiliation: Brunel University, London, UK.
authors.forename: Larisa N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Soldatova
authors.affiliation: The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Collier
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
authors.forename: Anika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oellrich
authors.affiliation: The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Tudor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Groza
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Verspoor
authors.affiliation: The University of Oxford, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rocca-Serra
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dumontier
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA.
authors.forename: Nigam H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype