Tag Vocabulary

Controlled tag registry for this vault. Tags are lowercase, hyphenated, singular. Before minting a new tag, check this list and reuse an existing one. If you mint a new tag, add it here with a one-line gloss in the same operation.

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Tag	Gloss
23andme	Research involving 23andme
ai-in-healthcare	Research involving ai in healthcare
admixture	Genetic admixture — individuals or populations descending from multiple ancestral source populations
association-mapping	Research involving association mapping
bayesian	Bayesian statistical methods
bcaa	Research involving bcaa
benchmark	Research involving benchmark
benchmarking	Systematic comparison of methods or models against reference standards
bioinformatics	The field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline
biochemistry	The study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms
biomarker	A naturally occurring molecule, gene, or characteristic by which a particular pathological or physiological process can be identified
biomedical-simulation	Research involving biomedical simulation
biostatistics	The application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology and medicine
blood-pressure	Research involving blood pressure
cambridge	Research involving cambridge
cancer-genetics	The study of genetic alterations that lead to cancer development and progression
cardiology	Research involving cardiology
cardiovascular-disease	Conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels
causal-inference	The process of drawing a conclusion about a causal connection based on the conditions of the occurrence of an effect
cell-death	Research involving cell death
cheminformatics	Research involving cheminformatics
chemosensory-perception	Sensory systems for detection of chemical stimuli, including taste and smell
chicago	Research involving chicago
clinical	Research involving clinical
clinical-informatics	Research involving clinical informatics
clinical-trial	Research involving clinical trial
clustering	Unsupervised or semi-supervised grouping of variants, individuals, or samples by shared profile
cmap	Research involving cmap
cohort	A study cohort or biobank
collider-bias	Index-event/collider bias from conditioning on disease status in subtype or progression genetics
colocalization	Research involving colocalization
computational-biology	The development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods to biological systems
computational-genetics	Research involving computational genetics
computational-simulation	Research involving computational simulation
computer-vision	Field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world
connectivity-map	Research involving connectivity map
coronary-physiology	Research involving coronary physiology
cystic-fibrosis	Research involving cystic fibrosis
data-fission	Paradigm of splitting a dataset into independent training and tuning datasets for statistical validation
dataset	A data resource or database
decision-theory	Theory about decisions and the choice of decisions, particularly in personalized medicine
deep-learning	Artificial neural networks with multiple layers used for complex modeling tasks
diet	The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats
disease-subtyping	Identifying clinically or mechanistically distinct subtypes within a single diagnostic category, often via genetic clustering
drug-discovery	Research involving drug discovery
drug-repurposing	Research involving drug repurposing
drug-target	A biological entity such as a protein or gene that is acted upon by a drug
duke	Research involving duke
enzyme-engineering	Directed evolution and rational design of enzymes for improved or novel catalytic activity
enzyme-kinetics	Research involving enzyme kinetic parameters such as turnover number, Michaelis constant, and inhibition constant
epidemiology	The branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases
erasmus-mc	Research involving erasmus mc
evolutionary-biology	The study of the processes that produced the diversity of life
fine-mapping	Statistical methods for identifying causal variants within GWAS loci
foundation-model	Research involving foundation model
functional-genomics	Research involving functional genomics
generative-adversarial-network	A generator-discriminator neural network architecture trained via adversarial competition
gene	A gene or gene family
gene-expression	Research involving gene expression
genetics	The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics
genomics	The branch of molecular biology concerned with the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes
gsea	Research involving gsea
gwas	Genome-wide association studies
heart-failure	Heart failure and its clinical subtypes (HFrEF, HFpEF, ischemic vs non-ischemic)
helmholtz-munich	Research involving helmholtz munich
hemodynamics	Research involving hemodynamics
hepatology	Research involving hepatology
high-performance-computing	Research involving high performance computing
high-throughput	Research involving high throughput
hornemann-lab	Research involving hornemann lab
hypothyroidism	Research involving hypothyroidism
imb	Research involving imb
imputation	Research involving imputation
incretins	Research involving incretins
inflammation	Research involving inflammation
innate-immunity	Research involving innate immunity
interventional-cardiology	Research involving interventional cardiology
jax	Research involving jax
lab	A research group or institution
library	Research involving library
lipid-metabolism	Research involving lipid metabolism
lipid-nomenclature	Controlled classification and shorthand systems for reporting lipid structures and analytical resolution
lipidomics	Research involving lipidomics
lipids	Research involving lipids
lipoprotein-metabolism	Research involving lipoprotein metabolism
local-ancestry	The ancestral population of origin assigned to a specific genomic segment in an admixed individual
machine-learning	Algorithms that improve automatically through experience and the use of data
mass-spectrometry	Research involving mass spectrometry
medical-genomics	Research involving medical genomics
medical-imaging	Techniques and processes used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes
mendelian-randomization	Method of using measured variation in genes of known function to examine the causal effect of a modifiable exposure
metabolic-flux-analysis	Research involving metabolic flux analysis
metabolic-modeling	Genome-scale and enzyme-constrained modeling of cellular metabolism
metabolism	Research involving metabolism
metabolomics	Research involving metabolomics
metallo-lab	Research involving metallo lab
method	A named analytical method
methods-critique	Critical re-evaluation of a published method's evaluation or generalization claims
mit	Research involving mit
mitochondria	Research involving mitochondria
monell	Research involving monell
mrc-bsu	Research involving mrc bsu
multi-ancestry	Methods or studies spanning multiple ancestral populations
multi-morbidity	The co-occurrence of two or more chronic medical conditions in one individual
multi-tissue	Research involving multi tissue
multi-trait	Research involving multi trait
multimodal	Research involving multimodal
multitrait	Research involving multitrait
mwas	Research involving mwas
natural-products	Research involving natural products
neuropathy	Research involving neuropathy
neuropsychiatric	Research involving neuropsychiatric
nextflow	Research involving nextflow
nf-kb	Research involving nf kb
nih	Research involving nih
nmr-spectroscopy	Research involving nmr spectroscopy
nutrition	Research involving nutrition
obesity	Research involving obesity
olfactory-receptor	Research involving olfactory receptor
oma1	Research involving oma1
oncology	The study and treatment of tumors and cancer
onion-liking	Research involving onion liking
ophthalmology	The branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders and diseases of the eye
oulu	Research involving oulu
pathway	A biological or molecular pathway
pathway-analysis	Mapping molecular measurements to curated biochemical pathways or reaction networks
person	A researcher or contributor
pharmacogenetics	Research involving pharmacogenetics
pharmacology	Research involving pharmacology
physiology	Research involving physiology
pipeline	Research involving pipeline
pleiotropy	Research involving pleiotropy
polygenic-risk-score	A numeric estimate of genetic predisposition to a disease or trait
protein-structure-prediction	Computational prediction of three-dimensional biomolecular structures and complexes
predictdb	Research involving predictdb
pregnancy-complications	Research involving pregnancy complications
project	An internal project or workstream
protein-language-model	Self-supervised deep learning models trained on protein sequences
proteomics	Research involving proteomics
quality-control	Methods and procedures to monitor and maintain data quality in genomic studies
pwas	Research involving pwas
queensland	Research involving queensland
r-package	A collection of R functions, compiled code, and sample data
receptor	Research involving receptor
reference	A referenceable definition, metric, or schema
regulome	Research involving regulome
relatedness	Genetic relatedness/kinship among study participants, e.g. via a genetic relationship matrix
repositioning	Research involving repositioning
risk-prediction	Research involving risk prediction
rvas	Rare variant association studies
salk-institute	Research involving salk institute
schizophrenia	Research involving schizophrenia
sensory-perception	Research involving sensory perception
sensory-science	Research involving sensory science
similarity-score	Research involving similarity score
single-cell	Research involving single cell
smell	Research involving smell
spearman-correlation	Research involving spearman correlation
sphingolipids	Research involving sphingolipids
stable-isotope-tracing	Research involving stable isotope tracing
stanford	Research involving stanford
statistical-genetics	Methods and theory in statistical genetics
statistics	Research involving statistics
structure-elucidation	Research involving structure elucidation
stub	Auto-created placeholder page, pending expansion
summary-statistics	Research involving summary statistics
systemic-health	The overall health of the body's systems and organs
systems-epidemiology	Research involving systems epidemiology
systems-genomics	Research involving systems genomics
systems-medicine	Research involving systems medicine
taste	Research involving taste
tool	A software tool, package, or pipeline
toxicology	Research involving toxicology
transcriptomics	Research involving transcriptomics
transfer-learning	Research involving transfer learning
transformer	Research involving transformer
tum	Research involving tum
twas	Research involving twas
type-2-diabetes	Research involving type 2 diabetes
ucsd	Research involving ucsd
uncertainty-quantification	Estimating the confidence or error bounds of a model's predictions
uq	Research involving uq
wgs	Research involving wgs
yale	Affiliation with Yale University
zurich	Research involving zurich
adipocyte	An adipocyte or fat cell
variant	A genetic variant or polymorphism
eqtl	Expression quantitative trait locus
enhancer	A regulatory DNA sequence that increases transcription
variant-to-gene	Methods for mapping genetic variants to target genes