The Hymenoptera Ontology: Part of a Transformation in Systematic and Genome Science

膜翅目本体论：系统科学和基因组科学转型的一部分

• 批准号: 1321620
• 负责人: Andrew Deans
• 金额: $ 24.62万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-30 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1321620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hymenoptera; Ontology; Part; Transformation; Systematic

Sawflies, ants, bees, wasps (Hymenoptera) comprise an extraordinarily diverse lineage of insects, with more than 115,000 described species and likely 1,000,000 species yet to be discovered. These insects serve critical roles as pollinators, parasitoids, herbivores, and as models for research on social behavior, physiology, speciation genetics, and to explore parasite-host interactions. The vast anatomical diversity exhibited by these organisms, coupled with a large body of disparate research and the eccentricities of investigators, yields numerous concurrent and only partially overlapping vocabularies that describe Hymenoptera anatomy. Centuries of Hymenoptera research, therefore, remain clouded by inconsistent terminology (for example, 'annellus' is used for two different head structures and for a part of the male genitalia).This project will bring Hymenoptera researchers together to build a consensus structured vocabulary (the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology) that 1) enables discovery of research results from publications, 2) empowers taxonomists to efficiently describe/ diagnose species and 3) provide improved access to information for policy makers, farmers, land managers and the general public. Tools will be developed that allow collaborators to virtually build ontologies for any group of species, while making these data useful to the research community via a Web-based anatomical atlas and application programming interface; all software will be open source (http://purl.oclc.org/NET/hymontology).Three postdocs and three students will receive training in an emergingfield: ontologies in evolutionary biology.

叶蜂，蚂蚁，蜜蜂，黄蜂（Hyplitera）组成了一个非常多样化的昆虫谱系，有超过115，000种已被描述的物种，可能还有1，000，000种尚未被发现。这些昆虫作为传粉者、拟寄生蜂、草食动物，以及作为研究社会行为、生理学、物种形成遗传学和探索寄生物-宿主相互作用的模型，发挥着重要作用。这些生物体所表现出的巨大的解剖学多样性，再加上大量不同的研究和研究人员的偏心，产生了许多并发的，只有部分重叠的词汇描述Hypltera解剖。因此，几个世纪以来的Hytertera研究仍然被不一致的术语所笼罩（例如，“annellus”用于两种不同的头部结构和男性生殖器的一部分）。该项目将使Hyplutera研究人员聚集在一起，建立一个共识结构词汇（Hypletera Anatomy Ontology），其1）使得能够从出版物中发现研究结果，2）使分类学家能够有效地描述/诊断物种; 3）为决策者、农民、土地管理者和公众提供更好的信息获取途径。将开发工具，使合作者能够虚拟地建立任何物种群体的本体，同时通过基于网络的解剖图谱和应用程序接口使这些数据对研究界有用;所有软件都将是开放源码的（http：//purl.oclc.org/NET/hymontology）。