[Ontology-editors] cellular components in the nervous system

[Chris Mungall]

I'm with the BIRN neuroinformatics group at the moment.

They have their own cell and cellular component ontology (used to be  
called SAO, now NIF subcellular). They are keen to swap out their own  
ontology and swap in GO-CC instead. However, there are a few things  
they have in their own ontology which they'd miss. Some are things  
we're planning on adding eventually anyway, such as disjointness  
relations (http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Cellular_component_disjoint_classes 
) and relations to cells (http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/XP:cellular_component_xp_cell 
). They're also keen on having upper level terms that discriminate  
between seperable objects (what they call cellular components) from  
cell component regions (what they call regional parts). They're going  
to do the work of mapping GO-CC terms into these categories, I said  
we'd take a look and consider it (if we don't like it it can always  
live outside GO as a bridge ontology resource).

I think it would be a major coup to have the BIRN group use GO-CC,  
they're integrating massive amounts of neuroscience data.

More details as they emerge, just keeping you informed

Chris