A hymenopterists' guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions
A hymenopterists' guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions
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DOI：
10.3897/jhr.27.2961
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Deans, Andrew R.
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作者：
Seltmann, Katja C.;Yoder, Matthew J.;Deans, Andrew R.
Hyplotera表现出令人难以置信的多样性的表型，结果类似于2.4亿年的进化和超过250年的研究的主要课题。在这里，我们描述的历史，发展，和实用的Hyattera解剖本体论（HAO）及其相关的应用。这些资源的目的是促进可访问的和可扩展的研究hyperteran表型。与hyperterist社区的外联是最重要的HAO项目，本文是对项目研讨会产生的问题的直接回应。在一个协调一致的尝试，以克服障碍的理解，特别是关于格式，效用和发展的HAO，我们讨论的同源性，“首选术语”，和“结构等效性”的作用。我们还概述了通用资源标识符（URI）的使用，并强调它们是提高参考hyperteran解剖学的科学的客观性和可重复性所必需的关键要素。务实地说，我们详细介绍了一种机制（“URI表”），作者可以使用URI将其发布的文本链接到HAO，我们描述了一个相关的工具（“分析器”）来导出这些表。这些工具和其他工具可通过HAO门户网站（http：//www.example.com）获得。portal.hymao.org最后，我们讨论了未来的HAO数字出版，跨分类本体对齐，语义表型的出现，和社区为基础的策展。
Hymenoptera exhibit an incredible diversity of phenotypes, the result of similar to 240 million years of evolution and the primary subject of more than 250 years of research. Here we describe the history, development, and utility of the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology (HAO) and its associated applications. These resources are designed to facilitate accessible and extensible research on hymenopteran phenotypes. Outreach with the hymenopterist community is of utmost importance to the HAO project, and this paper is a direct response to questions that arose from project workshops. In a concerted attempt to surmount barriers of understanding, especially regarding the format, utility, and development of the HAO, we discuss the roles of homology, "preferred terms", and "structural equivalency". We also outline the use of Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) and posit that they are a key element necessary for increasing the objectivity and repeatability of science that references hymenopteran anatomy. Pragmatically, we detail a mechanism (the "URI table") by which authors can use URIs to link their published text to the HAO, and we describe an associated tool (the "Analyzer") to derive these tables. These tools, and others, are available through the HAO Portal website (http://portal.hymao.org). We conclude by discussing the future of the HAO with respect to digital publication, cross-taxon ontology alignment, the advent of semantic phenotypes, and community-based curation.