Sequence Ontology

SO
Content
Description	Biological sequence ontology
Contact
Research center	WormBase, FlyBase, the Mouse Genome Informatics group, and the Sanger Institute
Access
Website	www.sequenceontology.org

The Sequence Ontology (SO) is an ontology suitable for describing biological sequences.^[1]^[2] It is designed to make the naming of DNA sequence features and variants consistent and therefore machine-readable and searchable.

^ Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M (2005). "The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations". Genome Biology. 6 (5): R44. doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r44. PMC 1175956. PMID 15892872.
^ Mungall CJ, Batchelor C, Eilbeck K (Feb 2011). "Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 44 (1): 87–93. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.002. PMC 3052763. PMID 20226267.

[1] Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M (2005). "The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations". Genome Biology. 6 (5): R44. doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r44. PMC 1175956. PMID 15892872.

[2] Mungall CJ, Batchelor C, Eilbeck K (Feb 2011). "Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 44 (1): 87–93. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.002. PMC 3052763. PMID 20226267.

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