@article{42fafd5772b541efab7dc5878bdbdd9a,
title = "Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology",
abstract = "We present Uberon, an integrated cross-species ontology consisting of over 6,500 classes representing a variety of anatomical entities, organized according to traditional anatomical classification criteria. The ontology represents structures in a species-neutral way and includes extensive associations to existing species-centric anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of model organism and human data. Uberon provides a necessary bridge between anatomical structures in different taxa for cross-species inference. It uses novel methods for representing taxonomic variation, and has proved to be essential for translational phenotype analyses. Uberon is available at http://uberon.org.",
author = "Mungall, {Christopher J.} and Carlo Torniai and Gkoutos, {Georgios V.} and Lewis, {Suzanna E.} and Haendel, {Melissa A.}",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank the developers of other anatomical ontologies, including Onard Mejino, Jonathan Bard, Duncan Davidson, Peter Robinson, Terry Hayamizu, Terry Meehan, David Hill, Paula Mabee, Wasila Dahdul, Erik Segerdell, Cynthia Smith, Paul Schofield, David Osumi Sutherland, and Maryann Martone. In addition, we also thank Harry Hochheiser and Wacek Kusnierczyk for comments on this manuscript, and Grace Panganiban for allowing us to use her beautiful distal-less example and images. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant numbers 5R01HG004838 and P41HG002273, by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231 and by the National Institutes of Health and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant numbers 1U24RR029825-01 and P41HG002273-09S1.",
year = "2012",
month = jan,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r5",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
journal = "Genome biology",
issn = "1474-7596",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
number = "1",
}