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Table 3 Representative use cases of queries and corresponding results

From: An ontology-based search engine for digital reconstructions of neuronal morphology

Search term

Direct hits

Exact matching concepts

Possible hits

Potential matching concepts

Rodents

17,903

{Mouse} U {rat} U {agouti} …

–

–

Vertebrates

22,820

{Rabbit} U {elephant} U {whales} U {rodents} U {carnivores} …

–

–

C57BL6 mouse

2309

{C57BL/6} U {C57BL/6J}

39

{C57BL} U {unspecified mouse}

Eastern tiger salamander

–

–

62

{Tiger salamander}

Philippine long-tailed macaque

–

–

191

{Macaca fascicularis}

Transgenic mouse

1914

{5HT3-EGFP} U {B13} U {Atoh1/nGFP} …

35

{Unspecified mouse}

Knock-in mouse

214

{Arx(GCG)7–1 JI (B6)} U {BDNF WT} U {BDNF Met/Met} …

5

{Unspecified mouse}

Knockout

161

{Bassoon (bsn) mutant} U {Ddo –/–} …

35

{Unspecified mouse}

CA1/CA2 border

3

{CA1c} ∩ {SP} ∩ {SO} ∩ {SR} ∩ {SLM} ∩ {mammals}

998

{CA1} U {hippocampus}

Hilus

40

{Hilus} ∩ {DG} ∩ {mammals}

407

{DG} U {hippocampus}

Stratum lucidum

16

{CA3} ∩ {SL} ∩ {mammals}

346

{CA3} U {hippocampus}

Deep

4541

{Layer 5} U {layer 5–6} U {layer 6} U ({inner} ∩ {granule layer}) U ({inner} ∩ {plexiform layer}) …

–

–

Granule layer

1296

({Granule layer} ∩ {DG}) U ({stratum granulare} ∩ {cerebellar cortex}) U ({stratum granulosum} U {MOB})

–

–

Fronto-insula

40

{Fronto-insula} ∩ {human}

596

{Insula} ∩ {human}

Insula

653

{Insula} U {posterior short insular gyrus} U {anterior long insular gyrus} …

349

{Unspecified neocortex}

Posterior horn

33

({Dorsal horn} U {lamina III}) ∩ {lumbar}

250

{Unspecified spinal cord}

Ipsilateral projecting

47

{Ipsilateral-projecting} ∩ {cerebral cortex}

11,366

{Unspecified pyramidal} U {horizontal} U {inverted} U {extraverted} …

Class III

51

({Class III} ∩ {cuticle}) U {VdaD} U …

69

{Unspecified multidendritic-dendritic arborization (DA)}

Mechanosensory

21

{Touch receptor}

–

–

Ivy

3

{Ivy}

2

{Unspecified Ivy/neurogliaform}

  1. The search terms that has a mapped instance (at the same node) are differentiated in bold from the others that are mapped downstream