The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Export

@article{citeulike:1882392, abstract = {The value of any kind of data is greatly enhanced when it exists in a form that allows it to be integrated with other data. One approach to integration is through the annotation of multiple bodies of data using common controlled vocabularies or 'ontologies'. Unfortunately, the very success of this approach has led to a proliferation of ontologies, which itself creates obstacles to integration. The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) consortium is pursuing a strategy to overcome this problem. Existing OBO ontologies, including the Gene Ontology, are undergoing coordinated reform, and new ontologies are being created on the basis of an evolving set of shared principles governing ontology development. The result is an expanding family of ontologies designed to be interoperable and logically well formed and to incorporate accurate representations of biological reality. We describe this OBO Foundry initiative and provide guidelines for those who might wish to become involved.}, author = {Smith, Barry and Ashburner, Michael and Rosse, Cornelius and Bard, Jonathan and Bug, William and Ceusters, Werner and Goldberg, Louis J. and Eilbeck, Karen and Ireland, Amelia and Mungall, Christopher J. and {OBI Consortium} and Leontis, Neocles and Rocca-Serra, Philippe and Ruttenberg, Alan and Sansone, Susanna-Assunta A. and Scheuermann, Richard H. and Shah, Nigam and Whetzel, Patricia L. and Lewis, Suzanna}, citeulike-article-id = {1882392}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17989687}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17989687}, doi = {10.1038/nbt1346}, issn = {1087-0156}, journal = {Nature biotechnology}, keywords = {autexp09, obo, ontologies}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {1251--1255}, posted-at = {2009-06-11 09:04:23}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346}, volume = {25}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1882392 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1882392 N2 - The value of any kind of data is greatly enhanced when it exists in a form that allows it to be integrated with other data. One approach to integration is through the annotation of multiple bodies of data using common controlled vocabularies or 'ontologies'. Unfortunately, the very success of this approach has led to a proliferation of ontologies, which itself creates obstacles to integration. The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) consortium is pursuing a strategy to overcome this problem. Existing OBO ontologies, including the Gene Ontology, are undergoing coordinated reform, and new ontologies are being created on the basis of an evolving set of shared principles governing ontology development. The result is an expanding family of ontologies designed to be interoperable and logically well formed and to incorporate accurate representations of biological reality. We describe this OBO Foundry initiative and provide guidelines for those who might wish to become involved. IS - 11 JF - Nature biotechnology SN - 1087-0156 EP - 1255 TI - The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 25 SP - 1251 KW - autexp09 KW - obo KW - ontologies AU - Smith, Barry AU - Ashburner, Michael AU - Rosse, Cornelius AU - Bard, Jonathan AU - Bug, William AU - Ceusters, Werner AU - Goldberg, Louis AU - Eilbeck, Karen AU - Ireland, Amelia AU - Mungall, Christopher AU - Leontis, Neocles AU - Rocca-Serra, Philippe AU - Ruttenberg, Alan AU - Sansone, Susanna-Assunta AU - Scheuermann, Richard AU - Shah, Nigam AU - Whetzel, Patricia AU - Lewis, Suzanna PY - 2007/11/07/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346 ER -