Main description:

This book provides a timely and first-of-its-kind collection of papers on anatomy ontologies. It is interdisciplinary in its approach, bringing together the relevant expertise from computing and biomedical studies. The book aims to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the foundations of anatomical ontologies and the-state-of-the-art in terms of existing tools and applications. It also highlights challenges that remain today.

Contents:

Existing Anatomy Ontologies for Human, Model Organisms and Plants.- Anatomical Ontologies for Model Organisms: The Fungi and Animals.- Plant Structure Ontology (PSO)- A Morphological and Anatomical Ontology of Flowering Plants.- Anatomy for Clinical Terminology.- The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology.- Towards a Disease Ontology.- Engineering and Linking of Anatomy Ontologies.- Ontology Alignment and Merging.- COBrA and COBrA-CT: Ontology Engineering Tools.- XSPAN - A Cross-Species Anatomy Network.- Searching Biomedical Literature with Anatomy Ontologies.- Anatomy Ontologies and Spatio-Temporal Atlases.- Anatomical Ontologies: Linking Names to Places in Biology.- Time in Anatomy.- The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas.- The Smart Atlas: Spatial and Semantic Strategies for Multiscale Integration of Brain Data.- Anatomy Ontologies - Modelling Principles.- Modelling Principles and Methodologies - Relations in Anatomical Ontologies.- Modeling Principles and Methodologies - Spatial Representation and Reasoning.- CARO - The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology.