The Sequence Ontology (SO) is an
ontology
In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality.
Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities ...
suitable for describing
biological sequences.
It is designed to make the naming of DNA sequence features and variants consistent and therefore machine-readable and searchable.
References
External links
* {{cite web , url= http://www.sequenceontology.org/ , title= The Sequence Ontology , publisher= Sequence Ontology , access-date= 2011-09-19
Ontology (information science)
Biological databases