How orthogonal are the OBO Foundry ontologies?

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Methods

We used a simple lexical algorithm to analyze the extent to which the set of OBO Foundry candidate ontologies identified from September 2009 to September 2010 conforms to

SUBMITTER: Ghazvinian A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3102891 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature