National Center for Biomedical Ontology

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The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) was founded in 2006 and is one of the National Centers for Biomedical Computing, and is funded by the NIH. [1] Among the goals of the NCBO is to provide tools for the discovery and access of biomedical ontologies, which are a type of controlled vocabulary designed to allow the expression of complex relationships in machine-readable form. [2] [3]

The NCBO has facilities at Stanford University, the Mayo Clinic, the University of Victoria, and the University at Buffalo. [4]

Among the products associated with the NCBO are the Open Biomedical Ontologies, [5] and the BioPortal, a web-based resource forum that makes available for research more than 270 of the world’s biomedical ontologies and terminologies. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "National Center for Biomedical Ontology: Advancing Biomedicine through Structured Organization of Scientific Knowledge". OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 10 (2). 2006 – via philarchive.org.
  2. ↑ "About NCBO" . Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Musen, Mark A; Noy, Natalya F; Shah, Nigam H; Whetzel, Patricia L; Chute, Christopher G; Story, Margaret-Anne; Smith, Barry (2012). "The National Center for Biomedical Ontology". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19 (2): 190–195. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000523. ISSN   1067-5027. Archived from the original on 2025-02-02.
  4. ↑ Musen MA, Noy NF, Shah NH, et al. (2012). "The National Center for Biomedical Ontology". J Am Med Inform Assoc. 19 (2): 190–5. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000523. PMC   3277625 . PMID   22081220.
  5. ↑ Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, et al. (November 2007). "The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration". Nat. Biotechnol. 25 (11): 1251–5. doi:10.1038/nbt1346. PMC   2814061 . PMID   17989687.
  6. ↑ Musen, Mark A; Noy, Natalya F; Shah, Nigam H; Whetzel, Patricia L; Chute, Christopher G; Story, Margaret-Anne; Smith, Barry; and the NCBO team (2012). "The National Center for Biomedical Ontology". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19 (2): 190–195. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000523. ISSN   1067-5027.
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