[Obo-format] Some context: obo-format support in Protege and OWLAPI 3.5.x

[Chris M. <cjm...@lb...>]

Some context on the last email - a lot of discussion has happened on the 
owlapi list and trackers.

I'm pleased to belatedly report that the OWLAPI is using the main OBO 
Format parser from http://oboformat.org. To achieve this, Heiko and 
Ignazio refactored the code to be part of the OWLAPI. It can now be 
found here:

https://github.com/owlcs/owlapi/tree/master/oboformat

The command line wrapper is independent:
https://github.com/oboformat/oboformat-tools

This is in owlapi 3.5.x and above. This version of the owlapi is used in 
Protege 5.x. This means easy saving/reading from obo in Protege without 
an additional roundtrip step.

We will eventually switch owltools to use the owlapi v3.5.x, but this 
will be a seamless switch for users.