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

- OBO Anatomy

The following list may also be of interest

- OBO CrossProduct

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

OBO Relations

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