OmniSearch: a semantic search system based on the Ontology for MIcroRNA Target (OMIT) for microRNA-target gene interaction data

Table 2 A subset of new OMIT terms

OMIT new term	Direct parent term	Human-readable explanation
computationally_asserted_evidence	IAO:information content entity	Evidence obtained from some
		computational methods.
information_from_miRNA_	OMIT:computationally_asserted_evidence	Records obtained from various
target_prediction_database		miRNA target prediction databases.
prediction_from_miRDB	OMIT:information_from_miRNA_	Records specifically obtained
	target_prediction_database	from the miRDB database.
prediction_from_TargetScan	OMIT:information_from_miRNA_	Records specifically obtained
	target_prediction_database	from the TargetScan database.
prediction_from_miRanda	OMIT:information_from_miRNA_	Records specifically obtained
	target_prediction_database	from the miRanda database.
target_score_in_miRDB	IAO:measurement datum	The score of some specific
		miRNA-target binding prediction
		from the miRDB database.
gene_context_score_in_TargetScan	IAO:measurement datum	The context score of some specific
		miRNA-target binding prediction
		from the TargetScan database.
mirSVR_score_in_miRanda	IAO:measurement datum	The mirSVR score of some specific
		miRNA-target binding prediction
		from the miRanda database.
information_from_NCBI_gene	IAO:information content entity	Records obtained from NCBI Gene
		according to gene IDs or gene symbols.
information_from_NCBI_nucleotide	IAO:information content entity	Records obtained from NCBI Nucleotide
		according to GenBank Accession numbers.
information_from_PubMed	IAO:information content entity	Records obtained from the PubMed
		database according to PMIDs.

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