Re: Ontology to link food and diseases

Hi Marco

This is a very touchy domain, where vocabularies and data should be
carefully wrapped within provenance, source, time stamp, authority. More
than anywhere else, beware of any positivist, unique thought, thruth-based
approach ...
The examples you give are not facts, but just statements which should be
backed by literature. Exceptions and different viewpoints exist, etc.
Think about the fact it will feed algorithms, at the end of the day. And if
you make them public, end in Google Knowledge Graph ...

See http://bvatant.blogspot.fr/2015/02/statements-are-only-statements.html


2015-05-03 23:20 GMT+02:00 Marco Brandizi <brandizi@ebi.ac.uk>:

>  Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for an ontology/controlled vocabulary/alike that links food
> ingredients/substances/dishes to human diseases/conditions, like
> intolerances, allergies, diabetes etc.
>
> Examples of information I'd like to find coded (please assume they're
> true, I'm no expert):
>   - gluten must be avoided by people affected by coeliac disease
>   - omega-3 is good for people with high cholesterol
>   - sugar should be avoided by people with diabetes risk
>
> I also would like linked data about commercial food products, but even an
> ontology without 'instances' would be useful.
>
> So far, I've found an amount of literature (eg, [1-3]) and vocabularies
> like AGROVOC[4], but nothing like the above.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> Marco
>
> *[1] http://fruct.org/publications/abstract14/files/Kol_21.pdf
> <http://fruct.org/publications/abstract14/files/Kol_21.pdf>*
> [2]
> *http://www.researchgate.net/publication/224331263_FOODS_A_Food-Oriented_Ontology-Driven_System
> <http://www.researchgate.net/publication/224331263_FOODS_A_Food-Oriented_Ontology-Driven_System>
> *[3]
> *http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/aip/475410/
> <http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/aip/475410/> *[4]
> http://tinyurl.com/ndtdhwn
>
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