Ontologies examples

• International Country List

• • example for an OWL Lite ontology

• Large ontologies are being developed

• • eClassOwl: eBusiness ontology for products and services, 75,000 classes and 5,500 properties
  • National Cancer Institute’s ontology: about 58,000 classes
  • Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry: a collection of ontologies, including the Gene Ontology to describe gene and gene product attributes in any organism or protein sequence and annotation terminology and data (UniProt)
  • BioPAX: for biological pathway data