Grid technology for collaborative ontology development
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- Received 27 April 2009 19:36 UTC; Posted 27 April 2009
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- Bioinformatics
- Abstract:
In contrast with the centrally-organised curation of the Gene Ontology, many biological ontologies are developed by loosely-organised groups who develop their ontology remotely. These groups tend to be formed from scientists and bio-informaticians from research groups with a common interest, who want to create a resource that will be useful to the community, rather than being formally mandated. Until recently, technological support for bio-ontology development relied on stand-alone editors running on users’ desk- tops for creating new ontology versions (e.g. OBO-Edit, COBrA and Protégé) and on private email, email lists and perhaps Wikis for the distribution of ontology files and discussions. Clearly, much better use could be made of the storage, versioning and visualisation techniques being developed by the database and e- Science communities. BioSphere is an online ontology editor supporting multiple users and is underpinned by a server that stores versions (in OWL-XML) and provides a discussion portal.
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- 3rd International Biocuration Conference
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- 3rd International Biocuration Conference , 16 April 2009
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Aitken, Stuart, Dang, Kemian, and Bard, Jonathan. Grid technology for collaborative ontology development. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3186.1> (2009)
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