Chris Mungall
The NCBO OBOF to OWL Mapping
Two of the most significant formats for biomedical ontologies are the Open Biomedical Ontologies Format (OBOF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). To make it possible to translate ontologies betwe…
Received 03 November 2009 20:16 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Hematopoietic Cell Types: Prototype for a Revised Cell Ontology
The Cell Ontology (CL) aims for the representation of in vivo and in vitro cell types from all of biology. Although the CL is a reference ontology of the OBO Foundry, it requires extensive revisio…
Received 17 August 2009 19:08 UTC; Posted 19 August 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Bioinformatics
Hematopoietic Cell Types: Prototype for a Revised Cell Ontology
The Cell Ontology (CL) is an OBO Foundry candidate ontology intended for the representation of cell types from all of biology. A recent workshop sponsored by NIAID on hematopoietic cell types in t…
Received 17 August 2009 19:29 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Bioinformatics
Uberon: towards a comprehensive multi-species anatomy ontology
The lack of a single unified species-neutral ontology covering the anatomy of a variety of metazoans is a hindrance to translating model organism research to human health. We have developed an Uber…
Received 12 August 2009 18:55 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
The RNA Ontology (RNAO): An ontology for integrating RNA sequence and structure data
Biomedical Ontologies are intended to integrate diverse biomedical data to enable intelligent data-mining and facilitate translation of basic research into useful clinical knowledge. We present the…
Received 06 August 2009 10:49 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Cross-Product Extensions of the Gene Ontology
The Gene Ontology is being normalized and extended to include computable logical definitions. These definitions are partitioned into mutually exclusive cross-product sets, many of which reference o…
Received 28 July 2009 21:38 UTC; Posted 29 July 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships
The Sequence Ontology is undergoing reform to meet the standards of the OBO Foundry. Here we report some of the incremental changes and improvements made to SO. We also propose new relationships to…
Received 28 July 2009 21:10 UTC; Posted 29 July 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
