@techreport{TR-IC-14-06,
   number = {IC-14-06},
   author = {Eduardo Miranda and André Santanchè},
   title  =  {{Linked  biology technical aspects -- linking phenotypes
                   and phylogenetic trees}},
   month = {February},
   year = {2014},
   institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
   note = {In English, 56 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       A large number of studies in biology, including those involving
       phylogenetic  trees reconstruction, result in the production of
       a   huge  amount  of  data  --  e.g.,  phenotype  descriptions, 
       morphological  data matrices, etc. Biologists increasingly face
       a  challenge  and opportunity of effectively discovering useful
       knowledge crossing and comparing several pieces of information,
       not  always  linked  and  integrated. Ontologies are one of the
       promising  choices  to  address  this  challenge.  However, the
       existing   digital   phenotypic   descriptions  are  stored  in 
       semi-structured   formats,  making  extensive  use  of  natural 
       language.  This  technical  report  is  related  to  a research
       developed  by  us~\cite{Miranda2013} to addresses this problem,
       adding  an intermediate step between semi-structured phenotypic
       descriptions   and   ontologies.  It  remodels  semi-structured 
       descriptions  to  a  graph  abstraction  in  which the data are
       linked.  Graph  transformations  subsidize  the transition from
       semi-structured   data  representation  to  a  more  formalized 
       representation  with  ontologies.  The present technical report
       drills down implementation details of our system. It provides a
       module  to ingest phylogenetic trees and phenotype descriptions
       --  represented  in  semi-structured  formats  --  into a graph
       database. Additionally, two approaches to combine distinct data
       sources  are  presented  and  an  algorithm to trace changes in
       phylogenetic traits of trees.
  }
}