CARO:Main Page
CARO
Welcome to CARO!
This wiki (hosted on the main NCBO public wiki) will contain information on the new CARO reference ontology of anatomy, combining FMA and model organism anatomical ontologies. How this will be achieved is yet to be decided...
Resources
Mail Lists
- OBO Cell
The following list may also be of interest
Meetings
http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Anatomy_Ontology_Workshop
Background Material
This is intended as a source of background reading material primarily for the workshop participants. Please help and add more!
Relations
Smith B, Ceusters W, Klagges B, Kohler J, Kumar A, Lomax J, Mungall CJ, Neuhaus F, Rector A, Rosse C Relations in Biomedical Ontologies Genome Biology, 2005, 6:R46
See also RO:Main_Page, the main RO wiki
Fiat Boundaries
As we're in the business of carving up reality, this paper of Barry's might be useful:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/articles/fiatobjects.pdf
FMA
A Reference Ontology for Bioinformatics: "The Foundational Model of Anatomy" Rosse, Cornelius and Mejino, Jose L V (2003) A Reference Ontology for Bioinformatics: The Foundational Model of Anatomy. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 36:pp. 478-500
http://sigpubs.biostr.washington.edu/archive/00000135/
Barry Smith, Jose L.V. Mejino Jr., Stefan Schulz, Anand Kumar and Cornelius Rosse, “Anatomical Information Science”, in A. G. Cohn and D. M. Mark (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Proceedings of COSIT 2005 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 149–164.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/anatomy_GIS/FMA-AIS.pdf
Ingvar Johansson, Barry Smith, Katherine Munn, Nikoloz Tsikolia, Kathleen Elsner, Dominikus Ernst, and Dirk Siebert, "Functional Anatomy: A Taxonomic Proposal” Acta Biotheoretica, 53(3), 2005, 153–166. http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Functional_Anatomy.pdf
also on the static versus dynamic see:
Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith and Louis Goldberg, “Biodynamic Ontology: Applying BFO in the Biomedical Domain”, in D. M. Pisanelli (ed.), Ontologies in Medicine: Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Ontologies, Rome October 2003 (Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 102 (2004)), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 20–38. http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/biodynamic.pdf