What has been done for CNO version 0.5

The main objective of this update of CNO is to propose an ontology that 1- could be integrated into the Neuroscience ontologies developed by the [Neuroscience Information Framework] (http://www.neuinfo.org/) (NIFSTD ontologies)(Gardner et al., 2008) and interoperable with other Biomedical Ontologies and 2- includes terms from existing ontologies such as the [System Biology Ontology] (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/) (SBO), the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI) or the [Information Artifact Ontology] (http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/) (IAO).

As first step, we reconsidered all the definitions proposed in CNO version 0.2.4 and added most of the missing definitions. In the meantime, we refined the terminology and the internal CNO classes. These changes are documented in the Changelog.

The second step was to integrate CNO classes into the Basic Formal Ontology super classes (see "Integration into the Basic Formal Ontology".

The third step was to import terms that are defined in other ontologies (see “Importing multiple terms from multiple external ontologies”). For this, we used the [MIREOT format] (http://obi-ontology.org/page/MIREOT) and the [Ontofox service] (http://ontofox.hegroup.org/).

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