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Your Database Is Talking; Is Anybody Listening?
Biological linguists develop new ontologies for richer, and cross-database searches
Email: Amy Adams - aadams@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(17):26
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During most of the 1990s, a linguistic chasm divided the worlds of flies, worms, mice, and other model organisms. People in one world remained largely ignorant about related genes and proteins being studied in the others, in part because each group stored data using its own peculiar vocabulary. Even within a single organism, a search for genes involved in "translation" might not pull up those described using the term "protein synthesis," and vice versa.
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