[Hplusroadmap] Gene Ontology, and other OBO Ontologies

[Antonio Marcos]

Hello everyone,

Im bringing this up as I dont think its covered in the wiki, and maybe Bryan or someone else is familiar with those and can give some kind of comparison between them. Or point to some site or blog that have compared OBO ontologies, of the likes of the GENE ontolgy..  

For those unfamiliar, OBO = Open Biomedical Ontonologies
www.obofoundry.org/
http://oboedit.org/docs/html/An_Introduction_to_OBO_Ontologies.htm

hopefully this comparison would give us an idea of how overlapping those ontologies are, how consistent, i.e. the overall quality of one ontology in relation to the others..

Other interesting characteristics appropriate for debate is tree depth, association richness, etc.. Im interested in ontology, and those are still young and have many flaws I hope to help improve, maybe with some help =] Basically lots of its problems comes from its origins, since they were joined from separate and often overlapping projects, research, groups, etc.. so each might have different terms meaning the same thing, and the same terms meaning different things, as to a lot of other problems.

Regards,
Mark.





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