18 April 2011: Revised and merged terms for the submission of content by site users.
We therefore merged terms that are not necessarily synonyms but have the same medical implication, e.g. kidney failure and elevated creatinine (ESM 2).
To compile a sense inventory of abbreviations from a list of expanded forms, we must merge term variations referring to the same concept into a single representative form.
Many variants of the same feature will often confuse machine learning models and merging terms that have the same semantic meaning strengthens the model and increases performance.
A key feature that makes this possible is that we merge terms that have the same anatomical location or medical implication, even if they are not merely alternative spelling variants.
Initial improvements to ECO included structural modifications to the ontology, batch term renaming, spelling corrections, term merges, term obsoleting, completing definitions and creating a new root class, as well as generation of internal cross products.
In all, MGI required approximately 740 terms to be added as children of MeSH terms where CTD had merged the OMIM term into the MeSH term.
In summary, the baseline MA file contained 2421 terms, from which 5 pairs of terms were subsequently merged and 1 term was deleted.
For OMIM primary terms that describe syndromes, the biocurator first checks to see if that same syndrome exists in MeSH, and if it does, then the OMIM term is merged to the MeSH term.
Welcome to the world of the work-life merge, the term recently coined by Facebook executive Emily White to describe a life in which work and free time are no longer neatly compartmentalised but seamlessly jumbled up together.
