Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity
James P. Balhoff, Wasila M. Dahdul, Cartik R. Kothari et al. · 2010
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Description
James Balhoff and a large team presented Phenex, a tool for recording trait diversity in a structured way, in PLOS ONE in 2010. Biologists have long described species' traits in plain sentences. Those sentences record how traits evolved, but computers cannot easily compare them. Phenex lets researchers annotate traits using shared vocabularies called ontologies. Trait data then become searchable and computable across species.
Structured trait records can feed evolutionary trees and genetic databases alike. They also preserve expert knowledge in a form that will not rot. Building such tools is slow, unglamorous, and field-changing. Phenex aimed to bridge old natural history and new data science. This paper is its formal introduction to the community.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James P. Balhoff, Wasila M. Dahdul, Cartik R. Kothari et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2010 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010500