Ontology for high-level types

[cbizon]

We have a set of high level types used in making queries. There are also some simple relationships forming. For instance, we are saying things like "Genetic Condition is a Disease that has such and such as an ancestor in MONGO".

We should formalize this, perhaps with an ontology. It'll make routing nicer, and generalization more possible, and grease the skids for semantic-style reasoning on the collected knowledge graph.

[cbizon]

We have come up with a set of conceptual types, but the're maybe a little idiosyncratic. At least, they are not widely shared.

There is other development though. The Translator architecture group is starting to look into this. There are at least a couple of possibilities, including UMLS (?) types as used in the Knowledge Beacon Aggregator, the biolink model, and one whose name I forget (Sci..something)

[stevencox]

Semanticscience Integrated Ontology