[Fwd: new ontology editing and mapping tool: COBrA]

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Just FYI. This might be an interesting tool to try out, since we are dealing 
with multiple anatomy ontologies.

Pankaj

-------- Original Message --------
From: stuart at inf.ed.ac.uk
Subject: new ontology editing and mapping tool: COBrA
To: gofriends at genome.stanford.edu
CC: stuart at inf.ed.ac.uk, j.bard at ed.ac.uk, bonnie at inf.ed.ac.uk,        Albert 
Burger   <ab at macs.hw.ac.uk>, Roman.Korf at ed.ac.uk


Our ontology editing and mapping tool COBrA is now available at:

http://www.xspan.org/applications/cobra/

COBrA offers drag-and-drop editing of the ontology, plus import and
export into GO RDF, plus RDFS and OWL for extensions of GO RDF we
have developed. The novel feature of COBrA is the display of two
ontologies simultaneously for the purpose of mapping terms. Mappings
between ontologies are made manually, and stored in a separate file
(also as a RDF ontology). For example, an OBO anatomy ontology can be
mapped to the OBO cell-type ontology - where the mappings denote the
cell types found in the tissues. Mappings to, and between, the Gene
Ontologies are also possible. COBrA supports GO flat file, DAGEdit flat
file, GO RDF, RDFS and OWL formats. See the user guide for details.

We have also provided access to the inference and validation methods
of the Jena toolkit in order to compare, merge, and extend ontologies
by applying inference rules. COBrA is not a generic RDF editor, GO
formats for term names are assumed (with the condition that they are valid
XML Qnames). COBrA is being developed under the XSPAN project,
http://www.xspan.org/ by Roman Korf and myself,
comments and suggestions welcome,

Stuart Aitken



Dr Stuart Aitken
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
The University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower, Room 4.10
Crichton St
Edinburgh EH8 9LE
United Kingdom

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