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How orthogonal are the OBO Foundry ontologies?

Journal of biomedical semantics | 2011

Ontologies in biomedicine facilitate information integration, data exchange, search and query of biomedical data, and other critical knowledge-intensive tasks. The OBO Foundry is a collaborative effort to establish a set of principles for ontology development with the eventual goal of creating a set of interoperable reference ontologies in the domain of biomedicine. One of the key requirements to achieve this goal is to ensure that ontology developers reuse term definitions that others have already created rather than create their own definitions, thereby making the ontologies orthogonal.

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  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U54 HG004028

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A collaboration involving developers of science-based ontologies who are establishing a set of principles for ontology development with the goal of creating a suite of orthogonal interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain. In addition to a listing of OBO ontologies, this site provides a statement of the OBO Foundry principles, discussion fora, technical infrastructure, and other services to facilitate ontology development. Feedback is welcome and participation encouraged.

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