title: Development of FuGO: an ontology for functional genomics investigations.
abstract: The development of the Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO) is a collaborative, international effort that will provide a resource for annotating functional genomics investigations, including the study design, protocols and instrumentation used, the data generated and the types of analysis performed on the data. FuGO will contain both terms that are universal to all functional genomics investigations and those that are domain specific. In this way, the ontology will serve as the "semantic glue" to provide a common understanding of data from across these disparate data sources. In addition, FuGO will reference out to existing mature ontologies to avoid the need to duplicate these resources, and will do so in such a way as to enable their ease of use in annotation. This project is in the early stages of development; the paper will describe efforts to initiate the project, the scope and organization of the project, the work accomplished to date, and the challenges encountered, as well as future plans.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics and Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. whetzel@pcbi.upenn.edu
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authors.lastname: Whetzel
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mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D023281:Genomics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D000078329:Workforce