[Obo-discuss] OBO relations ontology

[Nicole W. <NLW...@lb...>]

Hello OBO folk,

Since the relationship.obo ontology only has relations, and no classes, i=
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currently cannot be explored (visualized) with the BioPortal, since the
visualization tools are built to visualize classes.

This leads me to two questions.

1.  Do you think that a user might want to explore the contents of this
ontology through BioPortal?  (Personally, my answer is yes since I know I
have explored this ontology with obo-edit.)

2.  If so, does anyone have a creative solution for how this might be
accomplished?

Since only relationships are present, a new visualization option will nee=
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to be designed.  I imagine that this is the only ontology that will
contain *only* relationships, and is a unique case.  However, I (nievely)
imagine that the basic code could be reused and the solution to this
particular case is trivial, in that the current bioportal visualization
tool would just look for relationships instead of classes do display.

Ideas/comments anyone?

Nicole