BioMixer: Visualizing Mappings of Biomedical Ontologies
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The majority of current ontology mapping visualization tools are limited to showing mappings between a pair of ontologies at a time. However, it is often the case that concepts from one ontology are mapped to concepts in several other ontologies. Understanding how multiple ontologies relate to one other, as well as understanding the quality of mappings created across ontologies, can be supported through visualizations that show mappings across more than two ontologies. In this paper, we present how BioMixer, a tool for visualizing biomedical ontologies, provides a number of customizable views to support the understanding, analysis and navigation of mappings across multiple ontologies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012