An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum

BACKGROUND: Dictyostelium discoideum is a model system for studying many important physiological processes including chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and signal transduction. The recent sequencing of the genome has revealed the presence of over 12,500 protein-coding genes. The model organism database dicty...

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Autores principales: Gaudet, Pascale, Williams, Jeffery G, Fey, Petra, Chisholm, Rex L
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Methodology Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-130
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author Gaudet, Pascale
Williams, Jeffery G
Fey, Petra
Chisholm, Rex L
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Williams, Jeffery G
Fey, Petra
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description BACKGROUND: Dictyostelium discoideum is a model system for studying many important physiological processes including chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and signal transduction. The recent sequencing of the genome has revealed the presence of over 12,500 protein-coding genes. The model organism database dictyBase hosts the genome sequence as well as a large amount of manually curated information. RESULTS: We present here an anatomy ontology for Dictyostelium based upon the life cycle of the organism. CONCLUSION: Anatomy ontologies are necessary to annotate species-specific events such as phenotypes, and the Dictyostelium anatomy ontology provides an essential tool for curation of the Dictyostelium genome.
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spelling pubmed-23233902008-04-19 An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum Gaudet, Pascale Williams, Jeffery G Fey, Petra Chisholm, Rex L BMC Genomics Methodology Article BACKGROUND: Dictyostelium discoideum is a model system for studying many important physiological processes including chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and signal transduction. The recent sequencing of the genome has revealed the presence of over 12,500 protein-coding genes. The model organism database dictyBase hosts the genome sequence as well as a large amount of manually curated information. RESULTS: We present here an anatomy ontology for Dictyostelium based upon the life cycle of the organism. CONCLUSION: Anatomy ontologies are necessary to annotate species-specific events such as phenotypes, and the Dictyostelium anatomy ontology provides an essential tool for curation of the Dictyostelium genome. BioMed Central 2008-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2323390/ /pubmed/18366659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-130 Text en Copyright © 2008 Gaudet et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Methodology Article
Gaudet, Pascale
Williams, Jeffery G
Fey, Petra
Chisholm, Rex L
An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title_full An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title_fullStr An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title_full_unstemmed An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title_short An anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in Dictyostelium discoideum
title_sort anatomy ontology to represent biological knowledge in dictyostelium discoideum
topic Methodology Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-130
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