OBO Foundry Organization

See: OBO Foundry, Organization, OBO Foundry Program.

References

(Smith et al., 2007) ⇒ Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner, Cornelius Rosse, Jonathan Bard, William Bug, Werner Ceusters, Louis J Goldberg, Karen Eilbeck, Amelia Ireland, Christopher J Mungall, The OBI Consortium, Neocles Leontis, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alan Ruttenberg, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Richard H Scheuermann, Nigam Shah, Patricia L Whetzel, and Suzanna Lewis. (2007). “The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration.” In: Nature Biotechnology, 25. doi:10.1038/nbt1346.
- … The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) consortium is pursuing a strategy to overcome this problem. Existing OBO ontologies, including the Gene Ontology, are undergoing coordinated reform, and new ontologies are being created on the basis of an evolving set of shared principles governing ontology development. … We describe this OBO Foundry initiative and provide guidelines for those who might wish to become involved.