- From: Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@bbsrc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:31:36 +0000
- To: Chris Mungall <cjm@berkeleybop.org>
- Cc: "public-semweb-lifesci hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hi, I didn't yet try to read it, but I'm not that worried about its size. I was just wondering that these ontologies representation files are extremely redundant, so compression would be a natural choice for their transfer. Although it is more of a perspective thinking, I don't think this is a big issue at the moment. I guess extensional subsets are pretty natural in an taxonomy. Is the problem only the definition of the subsets of interest, or is there something more that I'm missing ? ciao, Andrea Il giorno 26/feb/09, alle ore 04:25, Chris Mungall ha scritto: > > On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote: > >> Thanks! >> >> It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9. >> I wonder whether there is some architecture to transparently transfer >> compressed ontologies... > > well the obo file is a bit more compact, and the source NCBI file is > even more compact. The OWLAPI should be able to read the obo > (probably takes a bit of memory), or you could run the conversion at > your end. > > Alternatively you could define a subset of interest (aka GO slim), > either extensionally or intensionally, and we could set something up > to import only that slim. I know others who would be interested in a > similar resource. > >> >> Ciao, >> Andrea >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Mungall [mailto:cjm@berkeleybop.org] >> Sent: 25 February 2009 20:53 >> To: andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) >> Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls >> Subject: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ? >> >> >> On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was looking for an NCBI Taxnomoy in OWL, but I didn't find it (or >>> better, could find fragment from other projects...) >>> >>> What is strange though, is that on the obo foundry website >>> (berkeleybop.org/ontologies) there are notes on the ncbi taxonomy >>> representation in owl... but not the representation itself. >> >> Temporarily dropped from the summary page but still available at the >> usual URL >> http://purl.org/obo/owl/NCBITaxon >> >> (warning: large..) >> >>> Does anybody have some hint about where I can fin an OWL version ? >>> Or even an RDF version ? Even better would a sparql endpoint >>> containing it... >>> >>> best, >>> Andrea Splendiani >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
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