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Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies This video gives an introduction to biomedical ontologies, and answers the questions “What is an ontology?” and “Why do we need them?” An ontology is a kind of controlled vocabulary of well defined terms with specified relationships between those terms, capable of interpretation by both humans and computers. Biomedical ontologies are being developed to express data in ways that can be read by computers, and shared between experiments and data sources to accommodate the proliferation of data in this new information age. |
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The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is one of the National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the NIH Roadmap.
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