The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease

The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is widely used in the rare disease community for differential diagnostics, phenotype-driven analysis of next-generation sequence-variation data, and translational research, but a comparable resource has not been available for common disease. Here, we have developed a concept-recognition procedure that analyzes the frequencies of HPO disease annotations as identified in over five million PubMed abstracts by employing an iterative procedure to optimize precision and recall of the identified terms.

Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics - June 25, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tudor Groza, Sebastian Köhler, Dawid Moldenhauer, Nicole Vasilevsky, Gareth Baynam, Tomasz Zemojtel, Lynn Marie Schriml, Warren Alden Kibbe, Paul N. Schofield, Tim Beck, Drashtti Vasant, Anthony J. Brookes, Andreas Zankl, Nicole L. Washington, Chris Tags: Article Source Type: research