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Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system (AISM)

A resource managed by Jennifer C. Girón and István Mikó.

Suggested citation: Mikó, I., González Montana, L., Girón, J. C. 2021. Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system (AISM). GitHub repository. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4660323

Multispecies insect anatomy ontologies are used as bases for robust knowledge bases for specific anatomical terms (Yoder et al. 2010, HAO Portal), improve the accessibility of morphology descriptions (Balhoff et al. 2014), and are useful for improving the modeling of discrete morphological characters in phylogenetic context (Tarasov 2019a, 2019b).

There are two major reasons why insects are poorly represented amongst multispecies anatomy ontologies: lack of a base insect anatomy ontology and the lack of infrastructure to build such resource.

The ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system contains terms used to describe the cuticle - as a single anatomical structure - and the skeletal muscle system in insect biodiversity research. The cuticle is the product of the single layer epithelium and mirrors changes in the morphology of this single sheet (like a blanket). This ontology serves as a root ontology for other multispecies insect anatomy ontologies.

You can find here a simple workflow for editing a fork of the AISM using Protégé.

A manual for creating an AISM-based insect ontology using the Ontology Development Kit (ODK) is available here.

More information can be found at http://obofoundry.org/ontology/aism

Versions

Stable release versions

The latest version of the ontology can always be found at:

https://github.com/insect-morphology/aism

The AISM was submitted for approval by the OBO Foundry on March 26 2021)

Once the request has been approved, the AISM will be available at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aism.owl

Editors' version

Editors of this ontology should use the edit version, src/ontology/aism-edit.owl

Contact

Please use this GitHub repository's Issue tracker to request new terms/classes or report errors or specific concerns related to the ontology.

If you would like to collaborate editing the AISM or need assistance using the AISM to build an order-specific ontology, reach out to Jennifer C. Girón or István Mikó.

Acknowledgements

This ontology repository was created using the Ontology Development Kit

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