Meanings
nounsubontology (plural subontologies)
plural subontologies
- A subset of an ontology
For cells and cellular components, available cross-species resources such as the Cell Ontology (CL) [ 46 ] and the Gene Ontology Cellular Component subontology (CO-CC) are used.
2015 July 13, Sampo Pyysalo et al., “Overview of the Cancer Genetics and Pathway Curation tasks of BioNLP Shared Task 2013”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI
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