In addition, the use of shared terminology greatly facilitates communication between researchers studying both kingdoms.
The use of shared terminologies can facilitate the development of a common language for improving the comparability of evaluation study results.
Systems like BioData (www.biodata.com) or Quartzy (www.quartzy.com) are specifically designed for academic labs and integration of these systems into a scientists' workflow could facilitate both the effort towards use of shared terminologies and data and resource sharing.
The terminology and abbreviations used in urologic imaging have generally been adopted on an ad hoc basis by different speciality groups; however, there is a need for shared nomenclature to facilitate clinical communication and collaborative research.
It is designed to meet the growing need for accurate, comprehensive, and shared terminology, covering topics including: cancers, findings, drugs, therapies, anatomy, genes, pathways, cellular and subcellular processes, proteins, and experimental organisms.
… [and] shared terminology and systems" (p. 8).
The OpenTox approach to ontology allows for efficient mapping of complementary data coming from different datasets into a unifying structure having a shared terminology and representation.
To enable the transfer of explanatory techniques, biomechanics and engineering need a shared terminology.
Once this shared terminology was reached, consensus on the guidelines came naturally.
Several researchers identified the gap between observed terms and shared terminologies as well as missing properties of lexical entries as major problems for applications, e.g., to identify pathological findings in German radiology reports [ 14].
