eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data
Janet Kelso, Johann Visagie, Gregory Theiler, et al.
Genome Res. 2003 13: 1222-1230
Why?
There is frequent ambiguity in the meaning of terms used to describe the source of the material used in the experiment.
What?
- A system which associates labelled target cDNAs for microarray experiments, or cDNA libraries and their associated transcripts with controlled terms in a set of hierarchical vocabularies.
- eVOC consists of orthogonal vocabularies suitable for describing the domains of human gene expression data.
- They have curated and annotated 7016 cDNA libraries represented in dbEST, as well as 104 SAGE libraries.
Why?
There is frequent ambiguity in the meaning of terms used to describe the source of the material used in the experiment.
What?
- A system which associates labelled target cDNAs for microarray experiments, or cDNA libraries and their associated transcripts with controlled terms in a set of hierarchical vocabularies.
- eVOC consists of orthogonal vocabularies suitable for describing the domains of human gene expression data.
- They have curated and annotated 7016 cDNA libraries represented in dbEST, as well as 104 SAGE libraries.