Evaluation of research in biomedical ontologies.

Abstract:

:Ontologies are now pervasive in biomedicine, where they serve as a means to standardize terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to facilitate integrative analyses over heterogeneous biomedical data. For this purpose, research on biomedical ontologies applies theories and methods from diverse disciplines such as information management, knowledge representation, cognitive science, linguistics and philosophy. Depending on the desired applications in which ontologies are being applied, the evaluation of research in biomedical ontologies must follow different strategies. Here, we provide a classification of research problems in which ontologies are being applied, focusing on the use of ontologies in basic and translational research, and we demonstrate how research results in biomedical ontologies can be evaluated. The evaluation strategies depend on the desired application and measure the success of using an ontology for a particular biomedical problem. For many applications, the success can be quantified, thereby facilitating the objective evaluation and comparison of research in biomedical ontology. The objective, quantifiable comparison of research results based on scientific applications opens up the possibility for systematically improving the utility of ontologies in biomedical research.

journal_name

Brief Bioinform

authors

Hoehndorf R,Dumontier M,Gkoutos GV

doi

10.1093/bib/bbs053

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-11-01 00:00:00

pages

696-712

issue

6

eissn

1467-5463

issn

1477-4054

pii

bbs053

journal_volume

14

pub_type

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