Ontologies and controlled vocabularies are being established by many groups to provide roadmaps through the confused mass of data currently being generated from increasingly large-scale experimental biological experiments. The world of protein chemistry is no exception to this rule, with Protein Ontology (PO) having lead the field by providing a framework in which individual molecules and complexes can be defined by their structure, function and cellular location. PO performs searches across the protein databases using a standard nomenclature consistent to all entries.
Citation:
Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, "Use of Protein Ontology to Enable Data Exchange for Complex Proteomic Experiments," cbms, pp.314-317, 2008 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008