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1: Genome Biol. 2005;6(5):R44. Epub 2005 Apr 29.Click here to read Click here to read Links

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

Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Life Sciences Addition, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94729-3200, USA. keilbeck@fruitfly.org

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.

PMID: 15892872 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1175956