Affiliations: Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine,
Georg August University Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, D-37077 Göttingen,
Germany | The National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and
Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing
100871, P.R. China | BIOBASE GmbH, Halchtersche Str. 33, D-38304
Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Abstract: CYTOMER® is a relational database of organs/tissues, cell types,
physiological systems and developmental stages that currently focuses on the
human system. From this database, we have derived an ontology for anatomical
and morphological structures for the human organism which includes all
embryonic stages and the cell types constituting these structures. The ontology
has been transferred to the OWL format and is freely available for download at
http://cytomer.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de.
Keywords: ontologies, human developmental stages, gene expression sources, relational database system, OWL, internet resource