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OntoFox: web-based support for ontology reuse.

Zuoshuang Xiang1, Mélanie Courtot, Ryan R Brinkman

  • 1Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. yongqunh@umich.edu.

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OntoFox is a web-based system for reusing terms from external ontologies, enhancing collaboration in life science ontology development. It offers flexible import options for OWL ontologies.

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Area of Science:

  • Life Sciences
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ontology Engineering

Background:

  • Ontology development is crucial for life sciences, requiring interoperability and term reuse.
  • OBO Foundry principles mandate open, non-redundant ontologies to avoid duplication.
  • Existing term import methods present challenges, necessitating new solutions like MIREOT.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce OntoFox, a web-based system for facilitating ontology term reuse.
  • To provide a flexible and user-friendly approach for importing terms into OWL ontologies.

Main Methods:

  • OntoFox allows users to input terms and fetch properties, annotations, and related classes from source ontologies.
  • It supports configurable selection and rewriting of annotation properties.
  • OntoFox employs a SPARQL-based algorithm for term retrieval and hierarchy extraction.

Main Results:

  • OntoFox enables controlled import of selected annotations and classes, supporting MIREOT principles.
  • It offers advanced options for term selection, including computed subsets and hierarchical extraction.
  • The system outputs results in RDF/XML format, directly importable into OWL ontologies.

Conclusions:

  • OntoFox is a publicly available service that simplifies the collection and reuse of terms from external ontologies.
  • It enhances interoperability and collaboration in ontology development.
  • Demonstrated application in Vaccine Ontology (VO) development showcases its utility.