Open AccessHematopoietic Cell Types: Prototype for a Revised Cell Ontology
Author(s) -
Alexander D. Diehl
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2009.3543.2
Subject(s) - ontology , computer science , gene ontology , process ontology , open biomedical ontologies , ontology based data integration , representation (politics) , suggested upper merged ontology , computational biology , information retrieval , chemistry , biology , gene , biochemistry , semantic web , gene expression , political science , epistemology , politics , law , philosophy
The Cell Ontology (CL) is an OBO Foundry candidate ontology intended for the representation of cell types from all of biology. A recent workshop sponsored by NIAID on hematopoietic cell types in the CL addressed issues of both the content and structure of the CL. The section of the ontology dealing with hematopoietic cells was extensively revised, and plans were made for restructuring these cell type terms as cross-products with logical definitions based on relationships to external ontologies, such as the Protein Ontology and the Gene Ontology. The improvements to the CL in this area represent a paradigm for the future revision of the whole of the CL