Databases as Ontologies Part 2 - A Case Study with HGNC

Abstract

This is the second of a two-part post about encoding databases as ontologies. In the first part, I gave a background on how I started working on this problem and the software stack I developed along the way. In this post, I explain the philosophy and design about how I encoded the HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) database as an ontology using PyOBO.

Authors 1

1. Charles Tapley Hoyt corresponding Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University