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This web site is dedicated to the Ontology Server(OS) component of the Query
Integration System (QIS),
a prototype application framework for biomedical database federation developed at
the Center for Medical Informatics to test distributed database integration involving
heterogeneous data sources in bioscience.
OS provides the following functionality:
- Mapping of either data or metadata elements within a data source to concepts in
a controlled vocabulary.
- By tagging these elements with controlled vocabulary concept IDs, the task of
integration between different data sources in distributed systems is facilitated.
This use of controlled vocabularies is well known to system integrators in medical
informatics who have to interchange data between systems; the benefits are fairly
obvious and do not need elaboration.
- QIS will let you query our databases by searchiing the UMLS for a particular concept,
and then letting you know if this concept exists within our own database. The neuroscience-related
details of the object/s that map to this concept (such as the higher-order anatomical
structures that they are contained in, or
For more information about the OS follow this link.
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