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MIREOT: the Minimum Information to Reference an External Ontology Term

Melanie Courtot¹, Frank Gibson², Allyson L. Lister³, James Malone⁴, Daniel Schober⁵, Ryan R. Brinkman¹ & Alan Ruttenberg⁶

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1. TFL-BCCRC
2. Abcam plc, Cambridge, UK
3. CISBAN and School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
4. The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
5. The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK and Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics (IMBI), University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
6. Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Received 07 August 2009 20:47 UTC; Posted 10 August 2009

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Biotechnology, Bioinformatics

Tags:

• OBI
• OBO Foundry
• integration
• Web Ontology Language
• OWL
• ontology
• ontologies
• MIREOT
• Minimum Information to Reference an External Ontology Term
• guidelines
• import

Abstract:

While the Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a mechanism to import ontologies, this mechanism is not always suitable. First, given the current state of editing tools and the issues they have working with large ontologies, direct OWL imports have sometimes proven impractical for day-to-day development. Second, ontologies chosen for integration may be under active development and not aligned with the chosen design principles. Importing heterogeneous ontologies in their entirety may lead to inconsistencies or unintended inferences. In this paper we propose a set of guidelines for importing required terms from an external resource into a target ontology. We describe the guidelines, their implementation, present some examples of application, and outline future work and extensions.

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International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

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Courtot, Melanie, Gibson, Frank, Lister, Allyson, Malone, James, Schober, Daniel, Brinkman, Ryan, and Ruttenberg, Alan. MIREOT: the Minimum Information to Reference an External Ontology Term . Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3574.1> (2009)

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