Semantic resources project/FutureWork

Our immediate goals for the future include both technical and social components. Among our technical requirements are the conversion of SWAN data to an updated format, and the development of an ontology for describing the breeding patterns and allele content of inbred mouse strains. We also plan to investigate the goal of our "pathways" resource, in order to make sure that our goals are both useful to researchers in neurodegenerative disease and not redundant with existing pathway modeling languages and large-scale web curation efforts. Our immediate goals along the social side include ongoing work to interface with existing ontology efforts: PRO (proteins), OBI (biomedical investigations), and the nascent IAO (information artifacts). Understanding how our modeling work with extant datasets can contribute new terms, categories, and relationships to these ontologies is an important aspect of our future work.

Task List for Future Work

 * Complete SWAN ontology conversion
 * Identify a batch file submission format, negotiated with PRO
 * Submit experimental method terms to OBI
 * Identify structured data sources for mouse modeling
 * Define the nature of the triple store, for hosting Neurocommons data, which will be available as an SCF package.