Re: [Obo-discuss] Request namespace for STATO: STATistics Ontology

[He, Y. <yon...@me...>]

Hi Philippe,

I am glad to see your STATO work. I am sure that statistics ontology modeling is important to your ISA projects. The same reason drove us to develop an Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics (OBCS), which we requested an namespace in OBO-discuss last Friday. I believe that many other groups and communities are also interested in the topic of statistical ontology modeling. Like all ~20 communities working together on OBI, we might also be better off to team up among us and all other interested parties, and work together on this if possible.

As I recall, when I presented an OBI-based statistics ontology modeling last April (2013) in an OBI developers' meeting, you mentioned your ongoing effort on a similar project. However, I have not got a chance to know more detail about your ontology until now. As you suggested, it would be good to at least compare these two ontologies (STATO and OBCS) and ensure interoperability.

Probably we, together with anyone who might be interested, can meet some time to discuss in more detail?

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Aside: 
- My previous OBI statistics presentations and preliminary data are stored in OBI svn: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/presentations/OBI%20workshop%20May%202012%20Ann%20Arbor/OBI%20Statistics/ 
- My Last April presentation file is here for downloading: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docs/presentations/OBI%20workshop%20May%202012%20Ann%20Arbor/OBI%20Statistics/OBIstat_Apr82013.pptx?format=raw 
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Thanks, 
Oliver He


-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe [mailto:pro...@gm...] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:40 AM
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Cc: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran; Orlaith Burke
Subject: [Obo-discuss] Request namespace for STATO: STATistics Ontology

--resending as initial email got mangled--

Dear OBO-discuss,

We are writing to introduce STATO, a general-purpose STATistics Ontology, and to request an OBO Foundry PURL.

Its aim is to provide coverage for processes such as statistical tests, their conditions of applications, and information needed or resulting from statistical methods, such as probability distributions, variable, spread and variation metrics.
Started in early 2012, as part of the requirement of the community-driven ISA Commons [1, 2] to represent data matrices and their statistical values, STATO is a standalone projects since Nov 2012. STATO is driven and funded by several ISA-based projects and their user community, but also by collaborations with data publication platforms. STATO also covers aspects of experimental design and description of plots and graphical representations commonly used to provide visual cues of data distribution or layout and to assist review of the results.

STATO is applicable, but not limited to, the broad life, natural and biomedical science domain with documented applications for factorial design, association studies, differential expression, hit selection and meta-analysis.

STATO has been developed to interoperate with other OBO Foundry ontologies (e.g. OBI), hence relies on BFO as a top level ontology and uses OBI[a][b] as mid-level ontology.

Release Candidate for Version 1 has 281 terms, including 269 classes, 9 object properties, 1 data property and 2 annotation properties. STATO provides textual definitions for all terms, as well as formal definitions for about 200 terms, allowing automatic classification of the statistical methods depending on the nature of the variables used as input, the conditions and their domain of application.

More about the background information (rationale, scope and community), content overview and objectives are at http://isa-tools.github.io/stato/

We are aware of the OBCS request for inclusion, Nevertheless, since STATO and OBCS were presented to OBI and both groups were aware of the reciprocal work since last year, we want to give the option of comparison at this stage of development. We are happy to make the work interoperable and look forward to contributions and feedback, watch the git repo for following the progress.

Thank you for the consideration

Alejandra, Orlaith and Philippe

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- requested prefix: STATO

- ontology title: STATistics Ontology

- ontology of development version download link:

https://raw2.github.com/ISA-tools/stato/dev/stato.owl

- ontology home page:

http://isa-tools.github.io/stato/

- contact emails:

Philippe Rocca-Serra <pro...@gm...> and Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran <ale...@gm...>,
PURL user ID: agbeltran

- ontology discussion mailing-list: sta...@go...

- ontology issue tracker link: https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/issues

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