Argudas: arguing with gene expression information
Abstract
In situ hybridisation gene expression information helps biologists identify where a gene is expressed. However, the databases that republish the experimental information are often both incomplete and inconsistent. This paper examines a system, Argudas, designed to help tackle these issues. Argudas is an evolution of an existing system, and so that system is reviewed as a means of both explaining and justifying the behaviour of Argudas. Throughout the discussion of Argudas a number of issues will be raised including the appropriateness of argumentation in biology and the challenges faced when integrating apparently similar online biological databases.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1012.1615
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1012.1615
- Bibcode:
- 2010arXiv1012.1615M
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computational Engineering;
- Finance;
- and Science;
- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence;
- J.3
- E-Print:
- in Adrian Paschke, Albert Burger, Andrea Splendiani, M. Scott Marshall, Paolo Romano: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences, Berlin,Germany, December 8-10, 2010