ONTOFUSION: Ontology-based integration of genomic and clinical databases.

@article{ONTOFUSION2005, abstract = {ONTOFUSION is an ontology-based system designed for biomedical database integration. It is based on two processes: mapping and unification. Mapping is a semi-automated process that uses ontologies to link a database schema with a conceptual framework-named virtual schema. There are three methodologies for creating virtual schemas, according to the origin of the domain ontology used: (1) top-down-e.g. using an existing ontology, such as the UMLS or Gene Ontology-, (2) bottom-up-building a new domain ontology- and (3) a hybrid combination. Unification is an automated process for integrating ontologies and hence the database to which they are linked. Using these methods, we employed ONTOFUSION to integrate a large number of public genomic and clinical databases, as well as biomedical ontologies.}, address = {Biomedical Informatics Group, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Spain.}, author = {P\'{e}rez-Rey, D and Maojo, V and Garc\'{i}a-Remesal, M and Alonso-Calvo, R and Billhardt, H and Martin-S\'{a}nchez, F and Sousa, A }, citeulike-article-id = {557314}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.02.004}, issn = {0010-4825}, journal = {Comput Biol Med}, keywords = {data, integration, ontology}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2008-04-21 12:29:32}, priority = {2}, title = {ONTOFUSION: Ontology-based integration of genomic and clinical databases.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.02.004}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - ONTOFUSION2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:557314 TI - ONTOFUSION: Ontology-based integration of genomic and clinical databases. JF - Comput Biol Med AD - Biomedical Informatics Group, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Spain. SN - 0010-4825 N2 - ONTOFUSION is an ontology-based system designed for biomedical database integration. It is based on two processes: mapping and unification. Mapping is a semi-automated process that uses ontologies to link a database schema with a conceptual framework-named virtual schema. There are three methodologies for creating virtual schemas, according to the origin of the domain ontology used: (1) top-down-e.g. using an existing ontology, such as the UMLS or Gene Ontology-, (2) bottom-up-building a new domain ontology- and (3) a hybrid combination. Unification is an automated process for integrating ontologies and hence the database to which they are linked. Using these methods, we employed ONTOFUSION to integrate a large number of public genomic and clinical databases, as well as biomedical ontologies. KW - data KW - integration KW - ontology AU - Pérez-Rey, D AU - Maojo, V AU - García-Remesal, M AU - Alonso-Calvo, R AU - Billhardt, H AU - Martin-Sánchez, F AU - Sousa, A PY - 2005/09/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2005.02.004 ER -