| In contrast with the centrally-organised curation of the Gene Ontology, many biological ontologies are developed by loosely-organised groups who develop their ontology remotely. These groups tend to be formed from scientists and bio-informaticians from research groups with a common interest, who want to create a resource that will be useful to the community, rather than being formally mandated. Until recently, technological support for bio-ontology development relied on stand-alone editors running on users’ desk- tops for creating new ontology versions (e.g. OBO-Edit, COBrA and Protégé) and on private email, email lists and perhaps Wikis for the distribution of ontology files and discussions. Clearly, much better use could be... |
