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. 2011 Nov 10;19(2):190–195. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000523

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The user interface for the National Center for Biomedical Ontology's Resource Index. The Resource Index is a database that links each term of each ontology in BioPortal to online data and knowledge resources that may reference that term. In the figure, the user has entered a particularly vague term—‘rash’, as used in MedDRA. The system uses the Resource Index and the underlying ontological structure in which the term appears to allow the user to locate some 18 images in the American Roentgen Ray Society's GoldMiner repository of radiographs, 20 microarray datasets in the Gene Expression Omnibus, 28 records in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, and so on. Each of the associated datasets refers to patients with some kind of rash. Clicking on a particular resource description in the user interface allows the user to navigate to the actual data records that have been indexed.