Phenoscape is a project to develop a

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

of phenotype data for species across the

Ostariophysi Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish. Members of this superorder are called ostariophysians. This diverse group contains 10,758 species, about 28% of known fish species in the world and 68% of freshwater species, and are present ...

, a large group of

teleost fish Teleostei (; Ancient Greek, Greek ''teleios'' "complete" + ''osteon'' "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts (), is, by far, the largest group of ray-finned fishes (class Actinopterygii), with 96% of all neontology, extant species of f ...

. The data is captured using annotations that combine terms from an anatomy ontology, an accompanying taxonomic ontology, and quality terms from the PATO ontology of phenotype qualities. Several other OBO ontologies are also used. The anatomy ontology was developed from the zebrafish anatomy ontology developed by the

Zebrafish Information Network The Zebrafish Information NetworkZFIN is an online biological database of information about the zebrafish (''Danio rerio''). The zebrafish is a widely used model organism for genetic, genomic, and developmental studies, and ZFIN provides an integr ...

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External links

* https://phenoscape.org/ Biological databases {{Database-stub