XP:Progress 2008

Progress as of 2008/10/20

Motivation and Goals

• GO has become too large and complex to manage manually
• Errors of omission and commission negatively impact users in many ways
• Provide connections between GO and other ontologies

Methods

• Create computable logical definitions (Cross Products) for GO terms using (a) other GO terms (b) terms from other ontologies
• Use logic-based reasoning to find inconsistencies and errors

Results 2008

• We have XP defs for 10712/27589 of GO terms
• 1500-2000 links added or moved in GO

Internal Cross Products

Purely within GO