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This chapter reviews how the richness of animal and fungal anatomy can be incorporated into formal ontologies so that knowledge of tissue organisation can be made accessible both to biologists and to other computational resources. The first part of the chapter focuses on the anatomical and bioinformatics principles behind making these ontologies and the problems that have to be solved before they can be made. The next section reviews the anatomical ontologies currently available for the main model animal and fungal organisms. The final section focuses on the current and future uses of these ontologies, together with the problems of curating them and publishing up-to-date versions. The chapter ends with a plea for more and better software to make anatomical ontologies more accessible to the general biological community and so more useful to it.
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Bard, J. (2008). Anatomical Ontologies for Model Organisms: The Fungi and Animals. In: Burger, A., Davidson, D., Baldock, R. (eds) Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics. Computational Biology, vol 6. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-885-2_1
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