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hchiba1 edited this page Oct 13, 2017 · 10 revisions

Previous activities

Sample queries exploiting the dataset described in this ontology are available.

Alignments with previous ontologies.

The mappings from OrthoXML to the ontology was defined using the Semantic Web Integration Tool (SWIT).

OWLDoc exported from Protégé is available.

Remaining issues

  • The draft of the ontology needs to be improved in terms of classes, properties and documentation of what has already been produced.
  • We have started by defining queries of pairwise paralogs and orthologs, but other relations and concepts like in-paralogs, out-paralogs, etc. could be defined and encoded as queries.
  • So far, there is no friendly way to query the transformed content, provided only SPARQL endpoints, which are for machines rather than for humans. Efforts in that sense should be made, taking into account that there will be distributed SPARQL endpoints of orthology-related content.
  • The future work also includes the development of a Linked Data API over the triple store that has method calls enabling the exploitation of the datasets.