BMC Bioinformatics

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Quality control for terms and definitions in ontologies and taxonomies

Jacob Köhler1*, Katherine Munn3, Alexander Rüegg4, Andre Skusa4 and Barry Smith2,3

Author Affiliations

1 Biomathematics and Bioinformatics Division, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

2 Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

3 Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

4 Technical Faculty, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:212 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-212

Published: 19 April 2006

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Circular definitions, circularity index ≥ 0.5 (See also Figure 1, A1)

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Non-circular definitions, circularity index < 0.5 (See also Figure 1, A2)

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Unintelligible definitions, intelligibility index < 0.7 (See also Figure 1, B1)

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Intelligible definitions, intelligibility index ≥ 0.7, (See also Figure 1, B2)

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Unintelligible terms, intelligibility index < 0.7 (See also Figure 1, C1)

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Unintelligible terms with proposed alternative definitions, intelligibility index < 0.7 (See also Figure 1, C1)

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Intelligible terms, intelligibility index ≥ 0.7, (See also Figure 1, C2)

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Evaluation of the circularity index, full evaluation results for the intelligibility score and the circularity index

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Evaluation of the intelligibility index, full evaluation results for the intelligibility score and the intelligibility index

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