Abstract
One of the premises of the OBO Foundry is that development of an orthogonal set of ontologies will increase domain expert contributions and logical interoperability, and decrease maintenance workload. For these reasons, the Cell Ontology (CL) is being re-engineered. This process requires the extraction of sub-modules from existing OBO ontologies, which presents a number of practical engineering challenges. These extracted modules may be intended to cover a narrow or a broad set of species. In addition, applications and resources that make use of the Cell Ontology have particular modularization requirements, such as the ability to extract custom subsets or unions of the Cell Ontology with other OBO ontologies. These extracted modules may be intended to cover a narrow or a broad set of species, which presents unique complications. We discuss some of these requirements, and present our progress towards a customizable simple-to-use modularization tool that leverages existing OWL-based tools and opens up their use for the CL and other ontologies.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 370-376 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
| Volume | 833 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Event | 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, ICBO 2011 - Buffalo, NY, United States Duration: Jul 26 2011 → Jul 30 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science