Data from: Matching arthropod anatomy ontologies to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: results from a manual alignment

Matching is an important step for increasing interoperability between heterogeneous ontologies. Here, we present alignments we produced as domain experts, using a manual mapping process, between the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology and other existing arthropod anatomy ontologies (representing spiders, ticks, mosquitoes and Drosophila melanogaster). The resulting alignments contain from 43 to 368 mappings (correspondences), all derived from domain-expert input. Despite the many pairwise correspondences, only 11 correspondences were found in common between all ontologies, suggesting either major intrinsic differences between each ontology or gaps in representing each group’s anatomy. Furthermore, we compare our findings with putative correspondences from Bioportal (derived from LOOM software) and summarize the results in a total evidence alignment. We briefly discuss characteristics of the ontologies and issues with the matching process.

本体匹配是提升异构本体（heterogeneous ontologies）间互操作性的核心步骤。本研究以领域专家身份，通过手动映射流程，生成了膜翅目解剖本体（Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology）与其他现有节肢动物解剖本体（涵盖蜘蛛、蜱虫、蚊子及黑腹果蝇）之间的本体对齐结果。所生成的对齐结果包含43至368条映射（对应关系），所有映射均源自领域专家的人工输入。尽管存在大量成对对应关系，但所有本体间仅存在11条共通对应关系，这表明各本体间要么存在本质性的重大差异，要么各类群的解剖结构表征存在缺口。此外，我们将本研究结果与源自LOOM软件的生物门户（Bioportal）中的推定对应关系进行了对比，并基于综合证据对齐对结果进行了汇总。我们还简要讨论了各本体的特征以及本体匹配流程中存在的问题。