[EFO-users] Important announcement for EFO 2.90

[Sirarat S. <si...@eb...>]

Dear EFO users,

Last week we released EFO 2.89 and announced our migration to Github beginning in EFO 2.90.

This migration will not affect content or structure of EFO.


——In EFO 2.90 (November 2017 release)—— 
Please read carefully if you currently access EFO files via our Sourceforge portal. EFO development and release versions are moving to GitHub. There are NO critical changes to the content or structure of EFO and the PURL address http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl> <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl> <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl%3E>; will always resolve to the latest EFO OWL file, so most users should not be affected by this change. Accessing files via the EFO website at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/ <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/> <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/> <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/%3E>; will also resolve to the latest release of EFO.

Beginning in November 2017 release, EFO 2.90, development snapshots and public releases will be available from our Github repository at https://github.com/EBISPOT/efo <https://github.com/EBISPOT/efo> <https://github.com/EBISPOT/efo> <https://github.com/EBISPOT/efo%3E>;. Detailed information on how to access the files will be spelled out in next months release announcement. We will no longer provide our release documentation in the form of ExFactor Ontology release notes.txt as available from https://sourceforge.net/p/efo/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/releasedocs/ExFactor%20Ontology%20release%20notes.txt <https://sourceforge.net/p/efo/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/releasedocs/ExFactor%20Ontology%20release%20notes.txt> <https://sourceforge.net/p/efo/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/releasedocs/ExFactor%20Ontology%20release%20notes.txt> <https://sourceforge.net/p/efo/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/releasedocs/ExFactor%20Ontology%20release%20notes.txt%3E>;, but instead will redirect all the change log monitoring to the “Ontology history” tab provided by the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/efo <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/efo> <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/efo> <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/efo%3E>;. 


If you have any questions or concerns on the upcoming changes, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Cheers,
Sira

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Sirarat Sarntivijai, PhD
Bioinformatician - Ontologist
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, 
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom CB10 1SD

Tel: +44 (0)1223 494 214
E-mail: si...@eb... <mailto:si...@eb...>
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