NAME

ONTO-PERL - PERL modules for OBO-formatted ontologies

DESCRIPTION

'ONTO-PERL' a collection of PERL modules for dealing with OBO-formatted ontologies (like the Gene Ontology). This code distribution gathers object-oriented modules (for dealing with ontology elements such as Term, Relationship, Synonym, and so forth), scripts (for typical tasks such as format conversions: obo2owl, owl2obo; besides, there are also many examples that can be easily adapted for specific applications), and a set of test files for ensuring the implementation quality.

Citing ONTO-PERL:

 If you use ONTO-PERL in your work, you are kindly requested to cite:
 
	ONTO-PERL: An API supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies
    E. Antezana; M. Egana; B. De Baets; M. Kuiper; V. Mironov
    Bioinformatics 2008; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn042

See also:

1. perldoc ONTO-PERL.pod

2. ONTO-Toolkit: A set of Galaxy tools to deal with OBO-formatted ontologies,
   http://bitbucket.org/easr/onto-toolkit

Files in 'ONTO-PERL':

README						Readme file

INSTALL						How to install ONTO-PERL (requirements)

LICENSE						ONTO-PERL's license

ONTO-PERL-x.y.tar.gz			ONTO-PERL API: version x.y

Changes						Description about the changes in 'ONTO-PERL'

Remark:

'ONTO-PERL' is provided "as-is". The current version is stable; 
nonetheless, improvements are expected as well as feedback is 
very welcome. Please visit constantly this repository for checking 
up-to-date versions of this distribution.

Contact:

Any comments, suggestions can be addressed to: 

  Erick Antezana
  <erick.antezana -@- gmail.com>

AUTHOR

Erick Antezana, <erick.antezana -@- gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006-2011 by Erick Antezana

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.