ChEBI chemistry ontology development funded by BBSRC
We received our official award letter from BBSRC Tools and Resources Fund today for the ChEBI ontology development grant. Needless to say, we are thrilled. We are now going to work together with Michael Ashburner’s group at the University of Cambridge to align ChEBI with other OBO Foundry ontologies by adoption of the Basic Formal Ontology and the Relationship Types Ontology.
This will include extensive annotation of the ChEBI ontology required after adoption of BFO and RO. The adoption of the BFO will require a major reorganisation of the upper levels of the ChEBI ontology in order to allow it to align to the BFO. This
reorganisation can only be achieved by manual annotation although some semi-automatic means will be employed to aidthe curator. In addition to the reorganisation of the upper levels https://puttygen.in , new relationships will be introduced semi-automatically but as the ChEBI ethos requires that all data is manually checked to maintain ChEBI’s high standards of data quality, we expect a major annotation task. The project is funded for three years. Stay tuned. We’ll report on our progress on a regular basis.
Categorised as: ChEBI, Chemoinformatics, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards
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