A set of ontologies to drive tools for the control of vector-borne diseases

We are developing a set of ontologies that deal with vector-borne diseases and the arthropod vectors that transmit them. For practical reasons (application priorities), we initiated this project with an ontology of insecticide resistance followed by a series of ontologies that describe malaria as well as physiological processes of mosquitoes that are relevant to, and involved in, disease transmission. These will be expanded to encompass other vectorborne diseases as well as non-mosquito vectors. The aim of the whole undertaking, which is worked out in the frame of the international IDO (Infectious Disease Ontology) project, is to provide the community with a set of ontological tools that can be used both in the development of specific databases and, most importantly, in the construction of decision support systems to control these diseases. The problem of vector-borne diseases Epidemiologists have brought together in one “functional “group a series of diseases of different etiolog...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: JBI
• Authors: Pantelis Topalis, Emmanuel Dialynas, Elvira Mitraka, Elena Deligianni, Inga Siden-Kiamos, Christos Louis
• Keywords: Arthropod Vector, Bioinformatics, Disease, JBI 2011, Vector-borne Diseases