Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Standardization of assay representation in the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations.

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The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) underwent a focused review of assay term annotations, logic and hierarchy with a goal to improve and standardize these terms. As a result, inconsistencies in W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) expressions were identified and corrected, and additionally, standardized design patterns and a formalized temp...