Evolutionary characters, phenotypes and ontologies: curating data from the systematic biology literature.

The wealth of phenotypic descriptions documented in the published articles, monographs, and dissertations of phylogenetic systematics is traditionally reported in a free-text format, and it is therefore largely inaccessible for linkage to biological databases for genetics, development, and phenotype...

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Main Authors: Wasila M Dahdul, James P Balhoff, Jeffrey Engeman, Terry Grande, Eric J Hilton, Cartik Kothari, Hilmar Lapp, John G Lundberg, Peter E Midford, Todd J Vision, Monte Westerfield, Paula M Mabee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2873956?pdf=render