Phenotype ontologies and translational research (Cambridge / Aberystwyth)

Mon, May 18 2026

Overview

Phenotype-ontology infrastructure (PhenomeNet, mouse and human phenotype crosswalks), AberOWL ontology repository, and translational applications.

Period: 2010–2014

Software

AberOWL — Ontology repository providing OWL EL reasoning services and SPARQL query expansion; integrates with PubMed/PMC for literature search. https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/aberowl
PhenomeNet — Cross-species phenotype network combining HPO, MPO, ZP and others, with semantic-similarity-based gene-disease prediction. https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/phenomenet