Identifying and relating biological concepts in the Catalogue of Life

Jones, Andrew Clifford, White, Richard John and Orme, Ewen 2011. Identifying and relating biological concepts in the Catalogue of Life. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2 (1) , 7. 10.1186/2041-1480-2-7

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Abstract

In this paper we describe our experience of adding globally unique identifiers to the Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life, an on-line index of organisms which is intended, ultimately, to cover all the world's known species. The scientific species names held in the Catalogue are names that already play an extensive role as terms in the organisation of information about living organisms in bioinformatics and other domains, but the effectiveness of their use is hindered by variation in individuals' opinions and understanding of these terms; indeed, in some cases more than one name will have been used to refer to the same organism. This means that it is desirable to be able to give unique labels to each of these differing concepts within the catalogue and to be able to determine which concepts are being used in other systems, in order that they can be associated with the concepts in the catalogue. Not only is this needed, but it is also necessary to know the relationships between alternative concepts that scientists might have employed, as these determine what can be inferred when data associated with related concepts is being processed. A further complication is that the catalogue itself is evolving as scientific opinion changes due to an increasing understanding of life.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
ISSN:	2041-1480
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2021 01:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/16348

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