KTAO: A kidney tissue atlas ontology to support community-based kidney knowledge base development and data integration

Yongqun He, Becky Steck, Edison Ong, Laura Mariani, Chrysta Lienczewski, Ulysses Balis, Matthias Kretzler, Jonathan Himmelfarb, John F. Bertram, Evren Azeloglu, Ravi Iyengar, Deborah Hoshizaki, Sean D. Mooney

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Abstract

The human kidney has a complex structure and diverse interactions among its cells and cell components, both during homeostasis and in its diseased states. To better understand the kidney, it is critical to systematically classify, represent, and integrate kidney gene activities, cell types, cell states, and interstitial components. Toward this goal, we developed a Kidney Tissue Atlas Ontology (KTAO). KTAO reuses and aligns with existing ontologies such as the Cell Ontology, UBERON, and Human Phenotype Ontology. KTAO also generates new semantic axioms to logically link terms of entities in different domains. As a first study, KTAO represents over 200 known kidney gene markers and their profiles in different cell types in kidney patients. Such a representation supports kidney knowledge base generation, query, and data integration.

Original languageEnglish
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2285
StatePublished - 2018
Event9th International Conference on Biological Ontology, ICBO 2018 - Corvallis, United States
Duration: 7 Aug 201810 Aug 2018

Keywords

  • AKI
  • Atlas
  • CKD
  • Disease
  • Gene marker
  • KTAO
  • Kidney
  • Ontology

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