- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:10:10 +0000
- To: Asad Bajwa <asad.bajwa@gmx.de>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>>>>> "AB" == Asad Bajwa <asad.bajwa@gmx.de> writes: AB> Dear Group, AB> Today i have a question regarding the Gene Ontology. It was AB> originally build on the OBO format. Well i want to find out the AB> most i can about the gene ontology. but my interests are in AB> using the OWL Format. I don't know how "good" this owl file is, AB> because it is generated automatically form the OBO format. So is AB> there anyone having experience with the Gene Ontology and maybe AB> advising me on that. The second point is, that the OWL File is AB> about 10 MB. I did not test, trying to load it into my AB> memory. As i know there are about 45.000 label declared in this AB> ontology. OWL is just a syntax. The semantics of OBO is nowadays officially stated to be the same as that of OWL (or a subset of it) so the OWL file should be fine for use. As for size, it's possible to reason over GO. It's quite big but structurally relatively simple. Cheers Phil
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