Membrane Ontology aims to provide a structured, unified vocabulary for the annotation of biological data pertaining to cell membranes and their experimental and computational models. This should allow not only thorough membrane descriptions but also integration between datasets, where similar membranes or models approximating the same type of biological membrane can be identified.
Terms on ontology are supposed to cover different types of biological membrane models used in membrane research and components that are needed for their description. We also plan to add terms useful for connecting models to types of biological membranes which are approximated by them.
We were considering to add other types of biological membranes to this ontology as they are also important for knowledge of barriers for chemicals entering body, but we think that anatomical ontologies like UBERON and Cell Ontology can cover those pretty well. Another aspect we were considering were methods used for membrane experiments and computational predictions but we will probably try to cooperate with ontology projects focusing on experimental and computational methods if we will need those.
I will be glad for any feedback.
Thank you and have a nice day
Dominik Martinát