Ontologies for Behavior
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Summary: Although dozens of biological ontologies have been created and deployed, relatively little attention has been given to using ontologies to represent behavior. Ontologies for two different behavior systems are described here. One ontology was a translation of a published ethogram, and the second was coded from video clips in a comparative study of jumping spider courtship.
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An Ethogram to Quantify Operating Room Behavior.
Jones L, Jennings B, Goelz R, Haythorn K, Zivot J, de Waal F Ann Behav Med. 2016; 50(4):487-96.
PMID: 26813263 PMC: 5320891. DOI: 10.1007/s12160-016-9773-0.
Best behaviour? Ontologies and the formal description of animal behaviour.
Gkoutos G, Hoehndorf R, Tsaprouni L, Schofield P Mamm Genome. 2015; 26(9-10):540-7.
PMID: 26215546 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-015-9590-y.
Linking human diseases to animal models using ontology-based phenotype annotation.
Washington N, Haendel M, Mungall C, Ashburner M, Westerfield M, Lewis S PLoS Biol. 2009; 7(11):e1000247.
PMID: 19956802 PMC: 2774506. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000247.