Data integration through protein ontology

Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to rely on sequence identity, structural similarity, or functional identification. Some proteins have a...

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Main Authors: Sidhu, Amandeep, Dillon, Tharam S., Chang, Elizabeth
Format: Book Chapter
Published: IGI Global 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33010
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Chang, Elizabeth
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Chang, Elizabeth
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description Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to rely on sequence identity, structural similarity, or functional identification. Some proteins have a high degree of sequence identity, structural similarity, or similarity in functions that are unique to members of that family alone. Consequently, this approach can not be generalized to integrate the protein data. Clearly, these traditional approaches have limitations in capturing and integrating data for protein annotation. For these reasons, we have adopted an alternative method that does not rely on keywords or similarity metrics, but instead uses ontology. In this chapter we discuss conceptual framework of protein ontology that has a hierarchical classification of concepts represented as classes, from general to specific; a list of attributes related to each concept, for each class; a set of relations between classes to link concepts in ontology in more complicated ways then implied by the hierarchy, to promote reuse of concepts in the ontology; and a set of algebraic operators for querying protein ontology instances.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-330102017-01-30T13:34:28Z Data integration through protein ontology Sidhu, Amandeep Dillon, Tharam S. Chang, Elizabeth Traditional approaches to integrate protein data generally involved keyword searches, which immediately excludes unannotated or poorly annotated data. An alternative protein annotation approach is to rely on sequence identity, structural similarity, or functional identification. Some proteins have a high degree of sequence identity, structural similarity, or similarity in functions that are unique to members of that family alone. Consequently, this approach can not be generalized to integrate the protein data. Clearly, these traditional approaches have limitations in capturing and integrating data for protein annotation. For these reasons, we have adopted an alternative method that does not rely on keywords or similarity metrics, but instead uses ontology. In this chapter we discuss conceptual framework of protein ontology that has a hierarchical classification of concepts represented as classes, from general to specific; a list of attributes related to each concept, for each class; a set of relations between classes to link concepts in ontology in more complicated ways then implied by the hierarchy, to promote reuse of concepts in the ontology; and a set of algebraic operators for querying protein ontology instances. 2007 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33010 IGI Global restricted
spellingShingle Sidhu, Amandeep
Dillon, Tharam S.
Chang, Elizabeth
Data integration through protein ontology
title Data integration through protein ontology
title_full Data integration through protein ontology
title_fullStr Data integration through protein ontology
title_full_unstemmed Data integration through protein ontology
title_short Data integration through protein ontology
title_sort data integration through protein ontology
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33010