Reasoning with the Variation Ontology using Apache Jena #OWL #RDF by Pierre Lindenbaum.
From the post:
The Variation Ontology (VariO), “is an ontology for standardized, systematic description of effects, consequences and mechanisms of variations”.
In this post I will use the Apache Jena library for RDF to load this ontology. It will then be used to extract a set of variations that are a sub-class of a given class of Variation.
If you are interested in this example, you may also be interested in the Variation Ontology.
The VariO homepage reports:
VariO allows
- consistent naming
- annotation of variation effects
- data integration
- comparison of variations and datasets
- statistical studies
- development of sofware tools
It isn’t clear on a quick read, how VariO accomplishes:
- data integration
- comparison of variations and datasets
Unless it means uniform recordation using VariO enables “data integration,” and “comparison of variations and datasets?”
True but what nomenclature, uniformly used, does not enable “data integration,” and “comparison of variations and datasets?”
Is there one?