The EXACT description of biomedical protocols Export

@article{citeulike:2933156, abstract = {Motivation: Many published manuscripts contain experiment protocols which are poorly described or deficient in information. This means that the published results are very hard or impossible to repeat. This problem is being made worse by the increasing complexity of high-throughput/automated methods. There is therefore a growing need to represent experiment protocols in an efficient and unambiguous way. Results: We have developed the Experiment ACTions (EXACT) ontology as the basis of a method of representing biological laboratory protocols. We provide example protocols that have been formalized using EXACT, and demonstrate the advantages and opportunities created by using this formalization. We argue that the use of EXACT will result in the publication of protocols with increased clarity and usefulness to the scientific community. Availability: The ontology, examples and code can be downloaded from http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/dss/EXACT/ Contact: Larisa Soldatova lss@aber.ac.uk 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156}, author = {Soldatova, Larisa N. and Aubrey, Wayne and King, Ross D. and Clare, Amanda}, citeulike-article-id = {2933156}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/13/i295}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18586727}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18586727}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, keywords = {description, experiment, ontology}, month = {July}, number = {13}, pages = {i295--303}, posted-at = {2008-11-07 13:50:40}, priority = {0}, title = {The EXACT description of biomedical protocols}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156}, volume = {24}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2933156 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2933156 N2 - Motivation: Many published manuscripts contain experiment protocols which are poorly described or deficient in information. This means that the published results are very hard or impossible to repeat. This problem is being made worse by the increasing complexity of high-throughput/automated methods. There is therefore a growing need to represent experiment protocols in an efficient and unambiguous way. Results: We have developed the Experiment ACTions (EXACT) ontology as the basis of a method of representing biological laboratory protocols. We provide example protocols that have been formalized using EXACT, and demonstrate the advantages and opportunities created by using this formalization. We argue that the use of EXACT will result in the publication of protocols with increased clarity and usefulness to the scientific community. Availability: The ontology, examples and code can be downloaded from http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/dss/EXACT/ Contact: Larisa Soldatova lss@aber.ac.uk 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156 IS - 13 JF - Bioinformatics EP - 303 TI - The EXACT description of biomedical protocols VL - 24 SP - i295 KW - description KW - experiment KW - ontology AU - Soldatova, Larisa AU - Aubrey, Wayne AU - King, Ross AU - Clare, Amanda PY - 2008/07/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn156 ER -