Minimal Anatomy Terminology

The Minimal Anatomy Terminology (MAT) is an OBO format terminology using broader-than relationships designed for annotating and searching tissue-associated data and timelines from organisms. Identifiers from >20 anatomy ontologies are mapped to each MAT term to facilitate access to and interoperability across tissue-associated data resources. 

More information can be found through the following links:

• MAT in EBI Ontology Lookup Service
• MAT in OBO format

Evaluation of MAT

Prior to the construction of the MAT terminology, the ArrayExpress user supplied annotation of ‘OrganismPart’ comprising 817 unique terms used in the annotation of >60,000 samples obtained from >200 species was mapped to multiple anatomy ontologies using a Perl im-plementation of the MetaPhone ‘sound-alike’ algorithm (Phillips, 1990). The results were recently published in Bard et al. (2008).

Publications on MAT

To Appear: Bard JBL, Malone J, Rayner TF and Parkinson H (2008) Minimal Anatomy Terminology (MAT): a species-independent terminology for anatomical mapping and retrieval. In Proc. of ISMB 2008 SIG meeting on Bio-ontologies. Link to paper here

Contact

Pleas econtact Jonathan Bard with any queries or general comments.