New Reasons for Biologists to Write with a Formal Language

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Journal Database (Oxford)

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Jun 3

PMID 35657112

Authors

Raul Rodriguez-Esteban

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Abstract

Current biological writing is afflicted by the use of ambiguous names, convoluted sentences, vague statements and narrative-fitted storylines. This represents a challenge for biological research in general and in particular for fields such as biological database curation and text mining, which have been tasked to cope with exponentially growing content. Improving the quality of biological writing by encouraging unambiguity and precision would foster expository discipline and machine reasoning. More specifically, the routine inclusion of formal languages in biological writing would improve our ability to describe, compile and model biology.

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