semanticscience

The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) provides a simple, integrated ontology of types and relations for rich description of objects, processes and their attributes. Have a look at a brief overview of SIO, its design principles and design patterns, and the published paper on SIO.

The OWL2 ontology is available at http://semanticscience.org/ontology/sio.owl Subsets of SIO have been prepared for modular import.

• labels as SIO URIs
• other subsets including core, chemical, nlm, etc

view the ontology at

• sio@bioportal
• sio@ontobee
• sio@aberowl

Resources that use this ontology include:

• Bio2RDF Linked Data for the Life Sciences
• SADI Semantic Web Services.
• DisGeNET's gene-disease associations
• The NCBI's PubChem RDF for measurement values
• The EBI's Gene Expression Atlas
• The Graph4Code project

If you have questions please send to SIO mailing list ([email protected]; http://groups.google.com/group/sio-ontology). If you have term requests, just use the issue tracker.