Available Ontologies

OpenCyc: The Project

Subject	Extension
General	"... OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. OpenCyc can be used as the basis of a wide variety of intelligent applications such as : rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and annotating expert systems games ..."




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OBO (Open Biological Ontologies)

Subject	Extension
General	Open Biomedical Ontologies is an umbrella web address for well-structured controlled vocabularies for shared use across different biological and medical domains
Projects	Gene Ontology Consortium "... The goal of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium is to produce a controlled vocabulary that can be applied to all organisms even as knowledge of gene and protein roles in cells is accumulating and changing. GO provides three structured networks of defined terms to describe gene product attributes ..." Sequence Ontology "... a joint effort by genome annotation centres, including: WormBase , the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project , FlyBase , the Mouse Genome Informatics group , and the Sanger Institute , We are a part of the Gene Ontology Project and our aim is to develop an ontology suitable for describing biological sequences ..."




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