Animal Health Ontology for Livestock

AHOL (Animal Health Ontology for Livestock) is an ontology of characteristics defining health issues of livestock in their environment (EOL) linked to their phenotypes (ATOL). AHOL aims to provide a reference ontology of health traits of farm animals for the international scientific and 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 AHOL ontology as operational as possible and closely related to measurement techniques; structure the ontology in relation to animal production