ELTerm: a terminology module for a plant data management system
Abstract
IRHS is a French plant research laboratory. Its BIDefI (for BIoinformatics plant Defense Investi-
gations) team develops methods and tools to help other teams manage and analyse their datasets:
— Development of a data management system which links research projects, experiments and the
biological material being used (along with its characteristics) and produced results,
— Development of various data analysis tools and in particular tools aiming at meta-analysis
In order to perform meta-analyses, it is mandatory to use a unified vocabulary across experiments to
describe the datasets, that is to say use shared terminologies to fill in meta-data fields.
The data management system consists of a data management layer, named ELVIS (for Experiment
and Laboratory on Vegetal Information System), and graphical interfaces, called PREMS (for Plant
Ressource Management System) [1]. Both layers include a terminology module which contents are
used to describe data in other modules. This module allows to store several terminologies related to
various topics: organism taxonomy, experimental conditions (in particular stresses), plant development
stages, plant anatomy, etc. The general underlying principal is similar to standard terminologies
representations such as TermBase Exchange [2]. The objective is to both keep the representation
simple without going into more complex representation such as those used in ontologies by knowledge
management engineers while still being expressive enough to suit our needs.
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