Thanks very much, Jie!

Tim

On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have made the mapping between MO and OBI/OBO ontologies and posted the 
> mapping
> files on MGED ontology page. You can find the links in the mapping section of
> page
> http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/MGEDontology.php
> 
> The mapping were made based on the definition. We found it should be more
> accurate to map the terms based on how they were used in the MAGE-TAB files.
> This work is in progress. I will update the MO to OBI mapping file soon and
> distribute the link.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jie
> 
> 
> Quoting Helen Parkinson <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> let me clarify. OBI is at release 1.0
>> 
>> 1. EFO imports parts of OBI that we need for ArrayExpress, we will continue 
>> to use EFO in ArrayExpress, as it has added terms and relations between 
>> terms that exist nowhere else - cell types, to cell lines for example. And 
>> it has some terms that are imported from e.g. the cell type ontologu EFO is 
>> an application ontology and will persist as we need it in our GUIs. You can 
>> see our paper on this here:
>> 
>> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btq099
>> 
>> 2. Where we import terms from OBI - or any other ontology we retain their 
>> namespace as recommended by OBI foundry. As more terms are in OBI we will 
>> import them.
>> 
>> 3. My colleague Jie Zheng is in the process of mapping MO to OBI and when 
>> this is complete we will import more terms from OBI into EFO, but EFO will 
>> still be used for the foreseeable future by ArrayExpress. You can think of 
>> EFO as an application ontology, or view on OBI and many other ontologies.
>> 
>> 4. Where ontology terms imported into EFO have an authoritative source e.g. 
>> Chebi we use their namespace and where they are from non authoritative 
>> sources, for example there is no obo foundry ontology and many competing 
>> ontologies we assign our own ids and will continue to do so
>> 
>> Happy to answer any questions.
>> 
>> best regards
>> 
>> Helen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Michael Miller wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>> 
>>> some comments on the minutes.
>>> 
>>> "Possible overlaps with EFO ontology from EBI and OBI"
>>> 
>>> if i understand correctly, EFO was created because OBI was not finalized
>>> yet and ArrayExpress at EBI is a live gene expression data repository and
>>> the curators needed an ontology they could use.  i believe their plan is
>>> to move to OBI or update EFO to reflect the relationship of terms in EFO
>>> to terms in OBI.
>>> 
>>> "MGED may be part of OBI now"
>>> 
>>> MGED (www.mged.org) is a non-profit organization.  What is being referred
>>> to as MGED on the HCLS web site is a predecessor to OBI which should be
>>> called the MGED Ontology, also referred to as MO, that came out of an MGED
>>> effort.  OBI is to replace MO.
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> michael
>>> 
>>> Michael Miller
>>> Principal Software Developer
>>> www.teranode.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:public-semweb-
>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Scott Marshall
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:31 PM
>>>> To: HCLS
>>>> Subject: Minutes for Scientific Discourse call
>>>> 
>>>> Minutes for the Scientific Discourse call last Monday can be found at:
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2010/03/22-hcls-minutes.html
>>>> 
>>>> Sudeshna has distilled them nicely onto the wiki:
>>>> http://esw.w3.org/HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Meetings/2010-3-22_Conference_Call
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Scott
>>>> 
>> 
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