search

flora-phenotype-ontology / flopoontology

Scripts, data files and ontologies for the FLOPO project
http://flora-phenotype-ontology.github.io/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
9 stars 4 forks source link

What is the status of FLOPO? #10

Open dr-shorthair opened 3 years ago

dr-shorthair commented 3 years ago

And what is the relationship with PO and TO?

leechuck commented 3 years ago

FLOPO uses PO in its axioms and directly links to PO. FLOPO is not an ontology of traits but phenotypes (traits plus their values); as such, it complements TO. Not sure about the status of FLOPO, but currently it is being used in particular in the context of floras and images.

dr-shorthair commented 3 years ago

ontology of [...] phenotypes (traits plus their values); as such, it complements TO.

Does FLOPO explicitly use TO for trait definitions? Or does is reproduce combinations of PO and PATO that are also found in TO?

leechuck commented 3 years ago

FLOPO does not explicitly use TO. Therefore, it may reproduce some trait classes that are also found in TO.

leechuck commented 3 years ago

As an addition: the reason for not relying on TO is that TO has very few axioms, and mapping to or reusing TO would be largely a manual exercise or based on label matching. FLOPO is a fully defined ontology, i.e., 100% of its classes have an axiomatic definition.