Uberon and the Gene Ontology

Uberon is closely integrated with the Gene Ontology (GO)

History

GO preceded Uberon by a number of years. GO originally had an implicit ontology embedded within it. For example,

• brain development
  • <--part of-- forebrain development
  • brain morphogenesis
    • <--part of-- forebrain morphogenesis

Following the design pattern of Normalization we extracted out the implicit ontology into its own module. This was done at the same time as a project for linking across species-specific anatomy ontologies, so there was a great deal of synergy here. See the Uberon paper for more information.