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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2014

The Porifera Ontology (PORO): enhancing sponge systematics with an anatomy ontology.

Robert W Thacker, Maria Cristina Díaz, Adeline Kerner, Régine Vignes-Lebbe, Erik Segerdell, Melissa A Haendel, Christopher J Mungall

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Robert W ThackerDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA.
Maria Cristina DíazMuseo Margarita, Boca de Rio, 6304 Venezuela.
Adeline KernerCR2P, UMR 7207 CNRS-MNHN-UPMC, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Bâtiment de Géologie, CP48, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
Régine Vignes-LebbeCR2P, UMR 7207 CNRS-MNHN-UPMC, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Bâtiment de Géologie, CP48, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
Erik SegerdellDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA.
Melissa A HaendelDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA.
Christopher J MungallGenomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPorifera (sponges) are ancient basal metazoans that lack organs. They provide insight into key evolutionary transitions, such as the emergence of multicellularity and the nervous system. In addition, their ability to synthesize unusual compounds offers potential biotechnical applications. However, much of the knowledge of these organisms has not previously been codified in a machine-readable way using modern web standards.

resultsThe Porifera Ontology is intended as a standardized coding system for sponge anatomical features currently used in systematics. The ontology is available from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/poro.owl, or from the project homepage http://porifera-ontology.googlecode.com/. The version referred to in this manuscript is permanently available from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/poro/releases/2014-03-06/.

conclusionsBy standardizing character representations, we hope to facilitate more rapid description and identification of sponge taxa, to allow integration with other evolutionary database systems, and to perform character mapping across the major clades of sponges to better understand the evolution of morphological features. Future applications of the ontology will focus on creating (1) ontology-based species descriptions; (2) taxonomic keys that use the nested terms of the ontology to more quickly facilitate species identifications; and (3) methods to map anatomical characters onto molecular phylogenies of sponges. In addition to modern taxa, the ontology is being extended to include features of fossil taxa.

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