title: Evaluation of ontology development tools for bioinformatics.
abstract: Ontologies are being used nowadays in many areas, including bioinformatics. To assist users in developing and maintaining ontologies a number of tools have been developed. In this paper we compare four such tools, Protégé-2000, Chimaera, DAG-Edit and OilEd. As test ontologies we have used ontologies from the Gene Ontology Consortium. No system is preferred in all situations, but each system has its own strengths and weaknesses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings universitet, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden. patla@ida.liu.se
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lambrix
authors.forename: Manal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Habbouche
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérez
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software; D012986:Software Validation; D014584:User-Computer Interface