Methods and systems, for ontological integration of disparate biological data

摘要

Methods, systems and computer readable media for correlating data from data sets to higher level categories of characterization of the data. Data from a first set of data is analyzed to determine where members of the first set map to an ontology. Data from a second set of data is analyzed to determine where members of the second set map to the ontology. From such analysis a subset of the first set of data is identified and a subset of the second set of data is identified. The subset of the first set of data is statistically analyzed with regard to its mapping to the ontology, and a first set of ontology terms are identified that are statistically differentiated by members of the subset of the first set of data. The subset of the second set of data is statistically analyzed with regard to its mapping to the ontology, and a second set of ontology terms is identified that are statistically differentiated by members of the subset of the second set of data. Correlation of the first set of ontology terms with the second set of ontology terms may further be performed.