Collection of Ontology Design Patterns, Templates, and Examples

Here we provide a list of ontology design patterns (ODPs), corresponding Ontorat templates, and examples for ontology developers' and domain experts' reference.

Introduction:

• The ontology design patterns include a specific diagram that lays out the inforamtion about the design pattern.
• The Ontorat template includes two files for each use case:
  • The setting file specifies how terms are related.
  • The input template file specifies the input format in an Excel file.
• An example includes several files:
  • Input data file in Excel format.
  • Output owl file.
  • Updated input data file with the newly generated ontology IDs included.

Collection of design patterns, templates, and examples :

1. Assays (OBI)
2. Cell line cells (CLO)
3. Devices (OBI)
4. Entities in Biobank (Biobank Ontology)
5. Licensed animal vaccines (VO)
6. Mouse strains (BCGO)

Note that the names inside parentheses are the namespaces of target ontologies used for the use case studies.

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