Sequence Ontology Explained

SO
Description:Biological sequence ontology
Center:WormBase, FlyBase, the Mouse Genome Informatics group, and the Sanger Institute

The Sequence Ontology (SO) is an ontology suitable for describing biological sequences.[1] [2] It is designed to make the naming of DNA sequence features and variants consistent and therefore machine-readable and searchable.

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Notes and References

  1. Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M . The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations . Genome Biology . 6 . 5 . R44 . 2005 . 15892872 . 1175956 . 10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r44 . Lincoln Stein . Richard M. Durbin . Michael Ashburner . Suzanna Lewis . free .
  2. Mungall CJ, Batchelor C, Eilbeck K . Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships . Journal of Biomedical Informatics . 44 . 1 . 87–93 . Feb 2011 . 20226267 . 3052763 . 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.002.