Deriving an ontology for human gene expression sources from the CYTOMER database on human organs and cell types

Holger Michael; Xin Chen; Ellen Fricke; Martin Haubrock; Remko Ricanek; Edgar Wingender

Deriving an ontology for human gene expression sources from the CYTOMER database on human organs and cell types

In Silico Biol. 2005;5(1):61-6.

Authors

Holger Michael¹, Xin Chen, Ellen Fricke, Martin Haubrock, Remko Ricanek, Edgar Wingender

Affiliation

¹ Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, Georg August University Goettingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany. hom@bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de

PMID: 15972006

Abstract

CYTOMER is a relational database of organs/tissues, cell types, physiological systems and developmental stages that currently focuses on the human system. From this database, we have derived an ontology for anatomical and morphological structures for the human organism which includes all embryonal stages and the cell types constituting these structures. The ontology has been transferred to the OWL format and is freely available for download at http://cytomer/bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Computational Biology / methods*
Database Management Systems
Databases, Factual
Databases, Genetic*
Databases, Protein
Gene Expression Regulation*
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
Humans
Internet
Software
Systems Biology
Time Factors