Comparison, alignment, and synchronization of cell line information between CLO and EFO.
BACKGROUND
The Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) is an application ontology driven by experimental variables including cell lines to organize and describe the diverse experimental variables and data resided in the EMBL-EBI resources. The Cell Line Ontology (CLO) is an OBO community-based ontology that contains information of immortalized cell lines and relevant experimental components. EFO integrates and extends ontologies from the bio-ontology community to drive a number of practical applications. It is desirable that the community shares design patterns and therefore that EFO reuses the cell line representation from the Cell Line Ontology (CLO). There are, however, challenges to be addressed when developing a common ontology design pattern for representing cell lines in both EFO and CLO.


RESULTS
In this study, we developed a strategy to compare and map cell line terms between EFO and CLO. We examined Cellosaurus resources for EFO-CLO cross-references. Text labels of cell lines from both ontologies were verified by biological information axiomatized in each source. The study resulted in the identification 873 EFO-CLO aligned and 344 EFO unique immortalized permanent cell lines. All of these cell lines were updated to CLO and the cell line related information was merged. A design pattern that integrates EFO and CLO was also developed.


CONCLUSION
Our study compared, aligned, and synchronized the cell line information between CLO and EFO. The final updated CLO will be examined as the candidate ontology to import and replace eligible EFO cell line classes thereby supporting the interoperability in the bio-ontology domain. Our mapping pipeline illustrates the use of ontology in aiding biological data standardization and integration through the biological and semantics content of cell lines.
['Ong|Edison|E|', 'Sarntivijai|Sirarat|S|', 'Jupp|Simon|S|', 'Parkinson|Helen|H|', 'He|Yongqun|Y|']
D000465:Algorithms D064229:Biological Ontologies D002460:Cell Line D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena D019295:Computational Biology D057225:Data Mining D016208:Databases, Factual D020869:Gene Expression Profiling D006801:Humans D012660:Semantics
Cell line Experimental factor ontology Cell line ontology Data integration Data mapping