Animal Trait Ontology for Livestock

ATOL (Animal Trait Ontology for Livestock) is an ontology of characteristics defining phenotypes of livestock in their environment (EOL). ATOL aims to: - provide a reference ontology of phenotypic traits of farm animals for the international scientificand educational - communities, farmers, etc.; - deliver this reference ontology in a language which can be used by computers in order to support database management, semantic analysis and modeling; - represent traits as generic as possible for livestock vertebrates; - make the ATOL ontology as operational as possible and closely related to measurement techniques; - structure the ontology in relation to animal production.

ATOL（畜禽环境特征本体）是一种定义畜禽在其生存环境（EOL）中表型的本体。ATOL旨在：- 为国际科学界和教育界、农民等提供畜禽表型特征的参考本体；- 以计算机可用的语言提供这一参考本体，以支持数据库管理、语义分析和建模；- 尽可能以通用方式表示畜禽脊椎动物的性状；- 使ATOL本体尽可能具有可操作性，并与测量技术紧密相关；- 根据动物生产结构化本体。