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Ontologies: 'Things'

The information below was derived from an exercise in which participants asked after an ontology that could be used to describe a certain 'thing'. The list is by no means exhaustive; whilst these ontologies exist, these are not endorsements of their appropriateness.

Phenotypes
  • there are multiple ontologies that cover many different organisms; in some cases there may be several ontologies for one species - Yeast, Mouse, Human
Organs
  • anatomy ontologies, vertebrate ontology, UBERON - cross-species anatomy ontology, VHOG; these both are being integrated to function better, looking at developmental ontologies
Symptom Ontologies
  • data dictionaries, ontology of tests (ask Tomasz Adamusiak), covered in SNOMED - but this is difficult in a usable form
Diseases
  • there are lots and lots of diseases ontologies, perhaps too many!
Material types
  • characteristics of samples, depending on species
Life course events and treatments
  • meta-application ontology - may come from patient records coding
Clinical trial processes
  • Clinical trials ontology, HL7 includes clinical interventions, OBI has recruitment terms
Clinical data from human patients
  • some ontologies may cover this; join in instead of making your own; link and claim interoperabilities
Drugs in clinical trials
Data types and experimental assays
Mouse Models of Disease
  • MGI of OMIM diseases, currently ongoing work, no formal ontology
Ontology for -omics data
  • OBI and EFO covers some of this
  • Sequence Ontology for NGS
Ontology for neuro-development
  • access is limited
Tissues & Bio-samples
  • Foundation Model of Anatomy (non-disease), developmental anatomy POV, not a clinical/surgical; UBERON; Cell Type Ontology - combine ontologies to map out cell derivations - GOOD CASE POINT - Ontologies often developed from a POV, might not be that useful for other applications
Biological samples
  • Bio-samples, FMA has bodily fluids (Blood, Sweat and Tears Ontology - Bodily Fluids Ontology)