The evidence and conclusion ontology (ECO): Supporting GO annotations

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1446, Issue , 2017, Pages 245-259

  Chibucos, Marcus C ^a   Siegele, Deborah A ^b   Hu, James C ^b   Giglio, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Biocuration; Conclusion; Confidence; Eco; Evidence; Experiment; Inference; Literature curation; Quality control

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; EVIDENCE AND CONCLUSION ONTOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXERCISE; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE PRODUCT; GENOME; HUMAN; ONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA CURATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84994519272     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3743-1_18     Document Type: Chapter

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