[opdev] FYI: ontologies
Pierre Lindenbaum
I've been asked by Florence's team to find a way to store the results
of the statistical analyzes.
As you now, the quantity of different kind of file formats is
unlimited so my idea was to archive the files using one or more
annotations for the files (e.g. File -> Plain Text File -> Structured
File -> Column Delimited File -> Ped-in File) and one ore more
annotations for the columns ( Any-Type -> Biological Entity-> Genetic
Marker -> SNP -> RS-Id )
To achieve this I've started to build two ontologies in a new google project:
http://code.google.com/p/fileontology/source/browse/trunk/files/ont/columns.rdf
http://code.google.com/p/fileontology/source/browse/trunk/files/ont/files.rdf
Using this king of ontology it should be possible for a robot to find
all the " Structured File" containing a "SNP".
I'm exploring this solution.
At the same time Frank Gibson (Newcastle University, UK /
http://www.carmen.org.uk/ ) gave me the advice to join the
information-ontologgy group
(http://groups.google.com/group/information-ontology ) because they
might have some good advices about this problem.
Pierre