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Ontologies
An ontology is a type of controlled vocabulary that encompasses relationships between entities. In this video, Antonia Lock, Scientific Database Curator at EMBL-EBI, introduces the concept of ontologies and discusses why ontologies are useful for describing biological data and biology.
On the next page, we’ll learn more from Antonia about a specific ontology, the Gene Ontology.