Notice of planned revisions to COB

[James A. Overton]

Hello everyone,

The Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine (COB) brings together key terms from a wide range of OBO projects into a single, small ontology. Our goal is to improve interoperability and reuse across the OBO community through better coordination of key terms. http://obofoundry.org/ontology/cob.html

In September there was a COB workshop in La Jolla, where we carefully reviewed the list of terms currently included in COB, and made decisions about which should keep their source ontology ID and which should have COB IDs. This was largely a clean-up operation, because previous versions of COB were somewhat inconsistent about these decisions, which was hindering development.

The result of that work is in this Pull Request: https://github.com/OBOFoundry/COB/pull/288 It includes OWL files that should be largely compatible with current uses of COB, but review is encouraged.

Comments on the PR are appreciated. It has already been reviewed by the workshop participants, OBO Technical Working Group members, and OBO Operations members. We hope to merge it at the end of next week (December 20). COB development is an ongoing process, so we can always go back and fix mistakes. If you're interested in COB development, please Watch the GitHub repository: https://github.com/OBOFoundry/COB

Best,

James