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. © 2012 Mungall et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Mungall, C. J., Torniai, C., Gkoutos, G. V., Lewis, S. E., & Haendel, M. A. (2012). Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology. Genome Biology, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r5
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