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Table 1 Illustration of the Life Sciences’ many synonymous and polysemous terms

From: Jointly creating digital abstracts: dealing with synonymy and polysemy

Official term or gene symbol

Synonyms

Ontology or term list

AT3G48750

CDC2, CDC2A, CDC2AAT, CDK2, CDKA1, CDKA;1, Cell Division Control 2, …

A. thaliana

AT1G52340

ABA Deficient 2, ATABA2, ATSDR1, GIN1, Glucose Insensitive 1, Impaired Sucrose Induction 4, ISI4, Salt Resistant 1, SDR1, SIS4, SRE1, Sugar-Insensitive 4, …

A. thaliana

CDK2

Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2

H. sapiens

ABCC8

MRP8, HI, PHHI, SUR1, ABC36, HHF1, …

H. sapiens

S100A8

MRP8, P8, 60B8AG, CGLA, CAGA, CFAG

H. sapiens

AATK

AATYK, KIAA0641, LMTK1, LMR1, …

H. sapiens

LMR1

Leishmaniasis Resistance 1

M. musculus

LMR1

CHLREDRAFT_184328

C. reinhardtii

Fruit

achene, berry, capsule, caryopsis, circumcissile capsule, cypsela, drupe, follicle, grain, nut, pod, poricidal capsule, silicula, siliqua, silique, …

Plant Ontology

nodal root

crown root, seminal root

Plant Ontology

erythrocyte

red blood cell, RBC

Cell Type

  1. Many gene aliases and synonyms as used in literature. Terms in bold highlight polysemy conflicts, esp. some terms that are official gene symbols in two species. Note that ‘silique’ is a term used in Arabidopsis research to refer to the plant’s dry seed pods, although the official PO term is ‘fruit’. For A. thaliana we queried TAIR[18], for H. sapiens: HUGO[19], for M. musculus (mouse) and C. reinhardtii: NCBI[20], for Plant Ontology: PO[21], for Cell Type: OLS[22, 23].