[Ontology-editors] cellular components in the nervous system

[Midori Harris]

Thanks; sounds good. My only objection to adding those upper level terms 
would have been that we don't have time to work on it, but if they're 
doing the work, yay!

m

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Chris Mungall wrote:

> 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
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