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Release Notes for IAO 2015-02-23 Release

Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) and Ontology Metadata

Date of Release: 2015-02-23

Subversion Revision: 717

Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)

The Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) is an ontology of information entities, originally driven by work by the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) digital entity and realizable information entity branch. For more information, see the project home page at http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/

Ontology metadata

The ontology metadata file contains all the terms required to annotate an ontology or ontology term developed in OWL format. Currently it is part of the IAO project and has been widely used in the OBO Foundry community when developing an ontology in OWL format. For more information, see the ontology metadata wiki page at: https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/wiki/OntologyMetadata

Availability

Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)

This version in OWL format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/2015-02-23/iao.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/2015-02-23/iao.owl

The latest released version in OWL format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl

Browse the latest version at Ontobee.org: http://www.ontobee.org/browser/index.php?o=IAO'>http://www.ontobee.org/browser/index.php?o=IAO

Browse the latest version at Bioportal: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/IAO?p=classes'>http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/IAO?p=classes

Ontology metadata

This version in OWL format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/2015-02-23/ontology-metadata.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/2015-02-23/ontology-metadata.owl

The latest released version in OWL format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/ontology-metadata.owl'>http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao/ontology-metadata.owl

Browse the latest version at Ontobee.org: http://www.ontobee.org/browser/index.php?o=IAO-Onto-Meta'>http://www.ontobee.org/browser/index.php?o=IAO-Onto-Meta

This release directory in Subversion: https://information-artifact-ontology.googlecode.com/svn/releases/2015-02-23'>https://information-artifact-ontology.googlecode.com/svn/releases/2015-02-23

New in this Release

The major changes in this release include:

  • Transition from BFO 1.1 and OBO-Rel relations to BFO 2.0 classes only (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2014-05-03/classes-only.owl) and RO core (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro/releases/2015-02-11/core.owl). For details of the transition process, please see files under directory: https://information-artifact-ontology.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/ontology/BFO 1.1 to 2.0 conversion
  • Some crucial high level terms were reviewed and improved during the OBI core terms review process. For details of the reviewed terms, please see: http://obi-ontology.org/page/Core_review
  • One new term has been added and labels of six terms have been changed since the last release on 2011/08/04

One new term was added:

IAO_0000429 email address

The labels of six terms were changed:

IAO_0000009 label -> datum label IAO_0000575 associating information with a CRID in the CRID registry -> associating information with a centrally registered identifier in its registry IAO_0000577 CRID symbol -> centrally registered identifier symbol IAO_0000578 CRID -> centrally registered identifier IAO_0000579 CRID registry -> centrally registered identifier registry IAO_0000580 looking up a CRID -> looking up a centrally registered identifier

Known Issues

Terms from http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl:'>http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl: DbXref, Definition, Subset, Synonym, SynonymType, do not resolve the URI and consequently do not have annotations.

Contact Us

To contact IAO developers or participate in IAO discussion, you can sign up for the IAO mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/information-ontology'>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/information-ontology

For IAO term requests, as well as reports of bugs or other issues, please use the IAO tracker: https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/list'>https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/list

Release note authors: Jie Zheng & Chris Stoeckert