PhylOnt
Research Project, PhylOnt, A Domain-Specific Ontology for Phylogenetic Analysis
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[hide]Project Summary
PhylOnt is a collabotation project with University of Georgia. The specific objective of this reserach was to develop and deploy an ontology for a novel ontology-driven semantic problem solving approach in phylogenetic analysis and down- stream use of phylogenetic trees. This is a foundation to allow an integrated platform in phylogenetically based comparative analysis and data integration. PhylOnt is an extensible ontology, that describes the methods employed to estimate trees given a data matrix, models and programs used for phylogenetic analysis and descriptions of phylogenetic trees including branch-length information and support values. It also describes the provenance information for phylogenetics analysis data such as information about publications and studies related to phylogenetic analyses. To illustrate the utility of PhylOnt, I annotated scientific literature and files to support semantic search.
Project Period
2010 – 2012
Collaborative Partners
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University University of Georgia
External Collaborations
University of Maryland, College Park
