IT401: An analysis of differences in biological pathway resources

TitleIT401: An analysis of differences in biological pathway resources
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsWang L, Gennari J, Abernethy N
Conference NameInternational Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)
Date Published11/30/16
PublisherCEUR-ws.org Volume 1747
Other NumbersVol-1747|urn:nbn:de:0074-1747-1
Abstract

Integratingcontentfrommultiplebiologicalpathwayresourcesisnecessarytofullyexploitpathwayknowledgefortheofbiologyandmedicine.Dif-ferencesincontent,representation,coverage,andmoreoccurbetweendatabases,andarechallengestoresourcemerging.Weintroduceatypologyofrepresentationaldifferencesbetweenpathwayresourcesandgiveexam-plesusingseveraldatabases:BioCyc,KEGG,PANTHERpathways,andReactome.WealsodetectandquantifyannotationmismatchesbetweenHumanCycandReactome.Thetypologyofmismatchescanbeusedtoguideentityandrelationshipalignmentbetweenthesedatabases,helpingusidentifyandunderstandinourknowledge,andallowingtheresearchcommunitytoderivegreaterfromtheexistingpathwaydata.

URLhttp://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IT401_ICBO2016.pdf