Jack,
The following paper describes NIFSTD:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18975148
It is an integrated neuroscience ontology developed by the Neuroscience
Information Framework (NIF). It includes NeuroNames (from BrainInfo) for
anatomical regions plus curation/comments.
-Kei
Jack Park wrote:
Looking at BrainInfo [1], which, as I recall, serves as a nomenclature
source for UMLS, the two names, telencephalon, and cerebrum, are
treated separately; neither mentions the other as a synonym (unless I
missed something).
Jack
[1] http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/Default.aspx
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kingsley Idehen
<kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote:
Kei Cheung wrote:
Matthias,
In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions (Telencephalon
and Cerebrum):
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon
http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> dbpprop:redirect
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum>
DBpedia world view should be formally expressed as:
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> owl:sameAs
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum>
Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telencephalon which reads:
The *cerebrum or telencephalon*, together with the diencephalon, constitute
the forebrain....
If doesn't set off a war, I'll issue a SPARQL Update :-)
Kingsley
NIFSTD is listed as one of the neuroscience ontologies through BioPortal,
its description of cerebrum is available at:
http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/39595/p15:birnlex_1042
If you read the editorial note (written by Bill Bug), it says:
"It isn't clear all would agree Cerebrum and Telencephalon are
equivalent."
Should we use "sameAs" or something else?
Cheers,
-Kei
Matthias Samwald wrote:
Question: Does a mapping between DBpedia and the OBO ontologies exist?
Has someone already invested some time in doing this, or at least reviewed
how to best approach it?
Given the central position of DBpedia in the linked data cloud and its
rich content in the biomedical domain, creating such a mapping is an obvious
(and very useful) thing to do.
Cheers,
Matthias Samwald
DERI Galway, Ireland
http://deri.ie/
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
http://kli.ac.at/
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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