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Volume 23 Supplement 1

Quality Assurance and Enrichment of Biological and Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies

Research

Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors were not involved in the peer review of any supplement articles they had co-authored. No other competing interests were declared.

Virtual9-12-December 2021

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Edited by Ankur Agrawal and Licong Cui.


  1. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and with more than five million deaths worldwide, the healthcare establishment continues to struggle with every new wave of the pandemic resulting from a new coronavirus va...

    Authors: Vipina K. Keloth, Shuxin Zhou, Luke Lindemann, Ling Zheng, Gai Elhanan, Andrew J. Einstein, James Geller and Yehoshua Perl
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):40
  2. Biomedical ontologies are representations of biomedical knowledge that provide terms with precisely defined meanings. They play a vital role in facilitating biomedical research in a cross-disciplinary manner. ...

    Authors: Xubing Hao, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Kirk Roberts and Licong Cui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):87
  3. The extensive international research for medications and vaccines for the devastating COVID-19 pandemic requires a standard reference ontology. Among the current COVID-19 ontologies, the Coronavirus Infectious...

    Authors: Ling Zheng, Yehoshua Perl and Yongqun He
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):88
  4. The Semantic Web community provides a common Resource Description Framework (RDF) that allows representation of resources such that they can be linked. To maximize the potential of linked data - machine-action...

    Authors: Shuxin Zhang, Nirupama Benis and Ronald Cornet
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):90
  5. In the United States, the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) are two major data sharing resources for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) research. ...

    Authors: Xubing Hao, Xiaojin Li, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Cui Tao, Paul E. Schulz and Licong Cui
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):151
  6. The utilization of dermoscopic analysis is becoming increasingly critical for diagnosing skin diseases by physicians and even artificial intelligence. With the expansion of dermoscopy, its vocabulary has proli...

    Authors: Xinyuan Zhang, Rebecca Z. Lin, Muhammad “Tuan” Amith, Cynthia Wang, Jeremy Light, John Strickley and Cui Tao
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):162
  7. The size of medical strategies is expected to grow in conjunction with the expansion of modern diseases’ complexity. When a strategy includes more than ten statements, its manual management becomes very challe...

    Authors: Abir Boujelben and Ikram Amous
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 23(Suppl 1):272

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    0.940 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

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