Semantic resources project/Antibodies/Antibody OBI Terms/Initial Model

Initial Model
Our initial modeling goal is to represent the information about a single antibody -- both the antibody itself, as well as information about the offer to sell the antibody from one or more suppliers. This representation should be in the form of OWL expressions using classes and properties from the OBI and PRO ontologies.

One example is being worked our in graphical form, shown below:



Here the ovals are classes, labeled (where appropriate) with the name of the class from either OBI, PRO, or our own ontology. Arrows with solid heads are "all-some" restrictions on properties, while arrows with hollow heads are "is a" relationships between classes. Boxes are individuals, joined via dotted-lines to the classes to which they belong. Red is a 'continuant' and blue is an 'occurrent'. Double-circled classes are the 'key classes' around which our model example focuses.

This image is available as a gzip'ed Omnigraffle file:

We've started to write the corresponding OWL ontology, which imports both OBI and PRO and asserts the existence of new classes for this representation, in a separate OWL file:



Finally, we've worked out a representation of the example from the figure above in an OWL file that imports the antibodies.owl base ontology above.



Ultimately, we generate the OBI file automatically from an intermediate file format. Here is an example of the converted file: