The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations

Karen Eilbeck(University of California, Berkeley), Suzanna Lewis(University of California, Berkeley), Chris Mungall(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Mark Yandell(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Lincoln Stein(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Richard Durbin(Wellcome Sanger Institute), Michael Ashburner(University of Cambridge)
Genome biology
April 29, 2005
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Abstract

The Sequence Ontology (SO) is a structured controlled vocabulary for the parts of a genomic annotation. SO provides a common set of terms and definitions that will facilitate the exchange, analysis and management of genomic data. Because SO treats part-whole relationships rigorously, data described with it can become substrates for automated reasoning, and instances of sequence features described by the SO can be subjected to a group of logical operations termed extensional mereology operators.


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