TY - JOUR
T1 - The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science
AU - Gkoutos, Georgios V.
AU - Schofield, Paul N.
AU - Hoehndorf, Robert
PY - 2012/10/1
Y1 - 2012/10/1
N2 - Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of quantitative measurements. Ontologies are means that facilitate the integration of data and knowledge allowing interoperability and semantic information processing between diverse biomedical resources and domains. Here, we present the Units Ontology (UO), an ontology currently being used in many scientific resources for the standardized description of units of measurements.
AB - Units are basic scientific tools that render meaning to numerical data. Their standardization and formalization caters for the report, exchange, process, reproducibility and integration of quantitative measurements. Ontologies are means that facilitate the integration of data and knowledge allowing interoperability and semantic information processing between diverse biomedical resources and domains. Here, we present the Units Ontology (UO), an ontology currently being used in many scientific resources for the standardized description of units of measurements.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/10994
U2 - 10.1093/database/bas033
DO - 10.1093/database/bas033
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-0463
VL - 2012
JO - Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
JF - Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
ER -