OBO Foundry in 2021: operationalizing open data principles to evaluate ontologies

• Published in: Database : the journal of biological databases and curation Vol. 2021
• Main Authors: Jackson, Rebecca, Matentzoglu, Nicolas, Overton, James A, Vita, Randi, Balhoff, James P, Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Carbon, Seth, Courtot, Melanie, Diehl, Alexander D, Dooley, Damion M, Duncan, William D, Harris, Nomi L, Haendel, Melissa A, Lewis, Suzanna E, Natale, Darren A, Osumi-Sutherland, David, Ruttenberg, Alan, Schriml, Lynn M, Smith, Barry, Stoeckert Jr, Christian J, Vasilevsky, Nicole A, Walls, Ramona L, Zheng, Jie, Mungall, Christopher J, Peters, Bjoern
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 26.10.2021; Oxford University Press - International Society for Biocuration
• Subjects: Biological Ontologies; Databases, Factual; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION; Metadata; Ontology; Original; Principles

Biological ontologies are used to organize, curate and interpret the vast quantities of data arising from biological experiments. While this works well when using a single ontology, integrating multiple ontologies can be problematic, as they are developed independently, which can lead to incompatibi...