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.