BIRNLex The BIRN project lexicon The BIRN Ontology Task Force 2007-07-28 2007-08-18 1.3.1 en Carol Bean Jessica Turner Maryann Martone Jeff Grethe Bill Bug David Kennedy Christine Fennema-Notestine Amarnath Gupta The BIRN Project lexicon will provide entities for data and database annotation for the BIRN project, covering anatomy, disease, data collection, project management and experimental design. It is built using the organizational framework provided by the foundational Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). It uses an abstract biomedical layer on top of that - OBO-UBO which has been constructed as a proposal to the OBO Foundry. This is meant to support creating a sharable view of core biomedical objects such as biomaterial_entity, and organismal_entity that all biomedical ontologies are likely to need and want to use with the same intended meaning. The BIRNLex biomaterial entities have already been factored to separately maintained ontology - BIRNLex-OrganismalTaxonomy.owl, BIRNLex-Anatomy.owl which this BIRNLex.owl file imports. Given its semantic domain must cover neurodegenerative disease, there is a BIRNLex-CogBehavior.owl file to represent a variety of entities required to describe such disorders. The Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) is also imported and forms the foundation for the formal description of all experiment-related artifacts with additional BIRN-specific entities built on top of this and kept in BIRNLex-Investigation.owl. The BIRNLex will serve as the basis for construction of a formal ontology for the multiscale investigation of neurological disease (MIND). v1.3.1 - Using the BIRNLex-OBI-proxy now, until a classifiable public release of OBI is available that is built off BFO v1.1. (BB: 2007-10-05)