The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities
Open Access
- 30 November 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Biomedical Semantics
- Vol. 4 (1), 43
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-4-43
Abstract
As biological and biomedical research increasingly reference the environmental context of the biological entities under study, the need for formalisation and standardisation of environment descriptors is growing. The Environment Ontology (ENVO; www.environmentontology.org) is a community-led, open project which seeks to provide an ontology for specifying a wide range of environments relevant to multiple life science disciplines and, through an open participation model, to accommodate the terminological requirements of all those needing to annotate data using ontology classes. This paper summarises ENVO's motivation, content, structure, adoption, and governance approach.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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