News

• September 2012 Karen Eilbeck presented a paper titled Using GVF for Clinical Annotation of Personal Genomes at the AIMM workshop part of ECCB12, in Basel Switzerland.
• July 2012 Mike Bada presented a paper titled 'Efforts toward a More Consistent and Interoperable Sequence Ontology' at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in Graz, Austria.
• September 2011 Mike Bada, University of Colorado, joins to SO team, to work on interoperability with the BFO
• September 2011 The NHGRI have funded SO's renewal R01
• March 2011 SOBA workshop presented at GMOD Spring Training.
• Feb 11th 2011 The CVS repository on sourceforge is back online after the hacking incident.
• January 2011 SO presented at Synthetic Biology Workshop.
• December 2010 10Gen Data Set v1.04 available.
• December 2010 GVF Specification v1.04 available.
• November 2010 Release 2.4.4 available.
• September 2010 A standard variation file format for human genome sequences in Genome Biology.
• August 2010 'Toward a Richer Representation of Sequence Variation in the Sequence Ontology' with Mike Bada accepted by AIMM Workshop.
• June 2010 Release 2.4.3 available.
• May 2010 SOBA paper available from Nucleic Acids Research.
• April 2010 Release 2.4.2 available.
• March 2010 New SO paper out: 'Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships' in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. A pre-print of this paper is available here.
• February 2010: Sequence Ontology Bioinformatics Analysis (SOBA) is available. Genome annotations in GFF3 can be uploaded and analysed.
• 2009 December Release 2.4.1 available.
• 2009 October Release 2.4 available.
• 2009 July SO presented at the International Conference of Biomedical Ontology.
• 2009 June Chris Conley -Undergrad from BYU joins SO for the summer
• 2009 May Graduate student, John Naylor joins SO.
• 2009 February 22: A new SO related paper Quantitative Measures for the Management and Comparison of Annotated Genomes K Eilbeck et. al.
• 2009 January 4-6: SO represented at the RNA Ontology consortium meeting in Cambridge UK.
• 2008 December 1: A paper from the BioSapiens project describing protein features in SO is published. The Protein Feature Ontology: A tool for the unification of protein feature annotations. GA Reeves et. al.