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The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope, semantic
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Buttigieg PL
; Pafilis E
; Lewis SE
; Schildhauer MP
; Walls RL
; Mungall CJ
J Biomed Semantics
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BACKGROUND: The Environment Ontology (ENVO; http://www.environmentontology.org/
), first described in 2013, is a resource and research target for the
semantically controlled description of environmental entities. The ontology's
initial aim was the representation of the biomes, environmental features, and
environmental materials pertinent to genomic and microbiome-related
investigations. However, the need for environmental semantics is common to a
multitude of fields, and ENVO's use has steadily grown since its initial
description. We have thus expanded, enhanced, and generalised the ontology to
support its increasingly diverse applications. METHODS: We have updated our
development suite to promote expressivity, consistency, and speed: we now develop
ENVO in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and employ templating methods to
accelerate class creation. We have also taken steps to better align ENVO with the
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry principles and
interoperate with existing OBO ontologies. Further, we applied text-mining
approaches to extract habitat information from the Encyclopedia of Life and
automatically create experimental habitat classes within ENVO. RESULTS: Relative
to its state in 2013, ENVO's content, scope, and implementation have been
enhanced and much of its existing content revised for improved semantic
representation. ENVO now offers representations of habitats, environmental
processes, anthropogenic environments, and entities relevant to environmental
health initiatives and the global Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030.
Several branches of ENVO have been used to incubate and seed new ontologies in
previously unrepresented domains such as food and agronomy. The current release
version of the ontology, in OWL format, is available at
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl . CONCLUSIONS: ENVO has been shaped into
an ontology which bridges multiple domains including biomedicine, natural and
anthropogenic ecology, 'omics, and socioeconomic development. Through continued
interactions with our users and partners, particularly those performing data
archiving and sythesis, we anticipate that ENVO's growth will accelerate in 2017.
As always, we invite further contributions and collaboration to advance the
semantic representation of the environment, ranging from geographic features and
environmental materials, across habitats and ecosystems, to everyday objects in
household settings.