A Tool for Collaborative Construction of Large Biological Ontologies
1. A Tool for Collaborative Construction of Large Biological Ontologies Jie Bao a , Zhiliang Hu b , Doina Caragea a , James Reecy b , Vasant G Honavar a a Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science a Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery b Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Email: {baojie, zhu, dcaragea, jreecy, honavar}@iastate.edu
6. Collaboration In Need (2) Swine Cattle Chicken Horse Each group works on an ontology module for a particular species (according to the group’s best expertise) Example 2: an animal trait ontology that involves multiple research groups across the world
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10. CVS-based Ontology Building Get GO CVS Account Get Source Forge Account Set Up CVS Access Submit Change Request Track the Request User submit change suggestion (in natural language) Get Source Forge Account Take a Change Request Curator Download Whole GO Flat File Local Editing Make Local Log File Save GO Flat File Version Control Commit Whole New Ontology to CVS
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21. Partial Reuse General Cattle Pig Chicken Animal Trait Ontology (Centralized) Pork General Pig Cattle Chicken Pork Animal Trait Ontology (Package-based) Semantic importing Knowledge incorporated in Pork ontology Knowledge not presented in Prok ontology Legend :