This document discusses using semantic phenotyping to aid disease diagnosis. It outlines using ontologies to semantically annotate phenotypes seen in patients, animal models, and genes. This allows computation of semantic similarity between phenotypes to identify potential disease candidates. The document also discusses challenges such as uneven phenotype data distribution and differences in how phenotypes are described across species. It proposes building an integrated cross-species semantic framework called Uberpheno to address these challenges and better leverage animal models for diagnosing rare diseases.