Re: Martone's Ontology

By the way, while we're on the topic, there's another very useful  
ontology which we certainly want to have on our list of relevant  
ontologies.  It addresses some of the issues directly relevant to  
both Use Cases and the issue Don brought up at the start of this  
thread - "describing distributions or receptors on a cell, locations  
of various processes in a cell" - in this case, for neuronal synapses.

SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology.
	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? 
db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17098931&query_hl=1&i 
tool=pubmed_docsum

Again - as I mentioned before, we also want to review this issue with  
the BioRDF folks - e.g., confer with Kei on his sense of what  
relevant TBox structure is provided in the SenseLab resource - and we  
should definitely review this issue with Matthias.

Cheers,
Bill

On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Kashyap, Vipul wrote:

> Do you mean create a page on the BioONT Wiki where we list  URLs  
> pointing to the OWL files for these ontologies for anyone to view  
> in their favorite OWL editor?  We probably have that already, right?
>
> [VK] Actually, we don’t and that would be a good idea as well!
>
>
>
> Would you rather have the content of the ontologies set up on a  
> page we can comment on?  That's not so easy to do, though for SAO  
> and for the BIRNLex ontology, I'd be able to get us access to  
> OWLDoc versions folks could easily navigate through in a web browser.
>
> [VK] That would be a better and more “readable” idea…. Might be as  
> simple as taking at text non-xml version of the OWL ontologies…
>
>        We sort of need to start building up a collection of  
> ontologies and data sources as we start building up the use cases…
>
>
>
> Just thinking aloud… Feel free to suggest alternate configurations.
>
>
>
> ---Vipul
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