Resources for Data Contributors

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Viewing ontologies

On the web

Many ontologies are available for browsing at the NCBO BioPortal. For example:

Click the "Visualize" button on the ontology's homepage to browse it graphically.

The taxonomic ontology is not yet available, but it will be generated from the Catalog of Fishes.

On your desktop

You can download the ontologies as OBO files from the above web sites. You can download and install OBO-Edit to view in a desktop application.

Annotating phenotypes

PhenoMaP EQ Editor

We are working on a specialized EQ Editor for data curation. Until it is ready for use, EQ annotations can be created using Phenote.

Phenote

Phenote is used by ZFIN and FlyBase for mutant phenotype annotation.

Installation and start up

Usage

The following table describes the entry fields in the PhenoMap configuration. Phenote does not force you to fill in them all, but see the table for when to use each field.

Field Usage
Publication the publication describing the character state
Taxon Genus & species
Specimen museum lot ID
Entity term from anatomy ontology (currently using zebrafish)
Quality term from PATO - should be "value" term, unless you are filling in an absolute measurement (e.g. "length")
Add'l Entity term from anatomy ontology - only use if the Quality term descends from "relational quality of continuant"
Numerical Value absolute measurement - useful as value for terms such as "length"
Unit unit of measurement, if Numerical Value is filled in
Original Description textual description of character state in publication
Image URI web link to an image, if available

Ontology change requests

Here are links to ontology term trackers:

  • PATO tracker
  • Zebrafish anatomy - does anyone know if there is a term tracker?