Aligning PEO and OBI

Introduction

Ontology alignment (OA) is a well-recognized need for bioinformatics and biomedical researchers. Currently around 260 bio-ontologies exist on the NCBO BioPortal and a number of databases exist that contain information about genes and their sequence/functions, proteins and pathway information. This knowl- edge is all related but modeled with heterogeneous ontologies; researchers would greatly benefit if it were better connected. OA addresses this challenge by identifying semantically identical or related entities in di�erent ontologies, and the resulting alignment can then be used for exchanging data and information.

Project Team

Faculty:
Valerie Cross, Miami University]
Amit Sheth, Wright State University]
Isabel F. Cruz, University of Illinois, Chicago]
Students: Cosmin Stroe, University of Illinois Chicago, Xueheng Hu and Pramit Silwal, Miami University, Maryam Panahiazar , Wright State University
Postdocs: Priti Parikh, Wright State University