Identification of non-coding RNAs ncRNAs has been significantly improved over the past decade. On the other hand, semantic annotation of ncRNA data is facing critical challenges due to the lack of a comprehensive ontology to serve as common data elements and data exchange standards in the field. We developed the Non-Coding RNA Ontology NCRO to handle this situation. By providing a formally defined ncRNA controlled vocabulary, the NCRO aims to fill a specific and highly needed niche in semantic annotation of large amounts of ncRNA biological and clinical data.
['Jingshan Huang', 'Karen Eilbeck', 'Barry Smith', 'Judith A. Blake', 'Dejing Dou', 'Weili Huang', 'Darren A. Natale', 'Alan Ruttenberg', 'Jun Huan', 'Michael T. Zimmermann', 'Guoqian Jiang', 'Yu Lin', 'Bin Wu', 'Harrison J. Strachan', 'Nisansa de Silva', 'Mohan Vamsi Kasukurthi', 'Vikash Kumar Jha', 'Yongqun He', 'Shaojie Zhang', 'Xiaowei Wang', 'Zixing Liu', 'Glen M. Borchert', 'Ming Tan']
The development of non-coding RNA ontology