@conference {IP30, title = {IP30: Supporting database annotations and beyond with the Evidence \& Conclusion Ontology (ECO)}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

The Evidence \& Conclusion Ontology (ECO) is a community standard for summarizing evidence in scientific research in a controlled, structured way. Annotations at the world{\textquoteright}s most frequented biological databases (e.g. model organisms, UniProt, Gene Ontology) are supported using ECO terms. ECO describes evidence derived from experimental and computational methods, author statements curated from the literature, inferences drawn by curators, and other types of evidence. Here, we describe recent ECO developments and collaborations, most notably: (i) a new ECO website containing user documentation, up-to-date news, and visualization tools; (ii) improvements to the ontology structure; (iii) implementing logic via an ongoing collaboration with the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI); (iv) addition of numerous experimental evidence types; and (v) addition of new evidence classes describing computationally derived evidence. Due to its utility, popularity, and simplicity, ECO is now expanding into realms beyond the protein annotation community, for example the biodiversity and phenotype communities. As ECO continues to grow as a resource, we are seeking new users and new use cases, with the hope that ECO will continue to be a broadly used and easy-to-implement community standard for representing evidence in diverse biological applications. Feel free to visit two ECO-sponsored workshops at ICBO 2016 to learn more: 1. {\`O}An introduction to the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology and representing evidence in scientific research{\'O} and 2. {\`O}OBI-ECO Interactions \& Evidence{\'O}.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IP30_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Marcus Chibucos and Suvarna Nadendla and James Munro and Elvira Mitraka and Dustin Olley and Nicole Vasilevsky and Matthew Brush and Michelle Giglio} } @conference {IP19, title = {IP19: Opportunities and challenges presented by Wikidata in the context of biocuration}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

Wikidata is a world readable and writable knowledge base maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. It offers the opportunity to collaboratively construct a fully open access knowledge graph spanning biology, medicine, and all other domains of knowledge. To meet this potential, social and technical challenges must be overcome most of which are familiar to the biocuration community. These include community ontology building, high precision information extraction, provenance, and license management. By working together with Wikidata now, we can help shape it into a trustworthy, unencumbered central node in the Semantic Web of biomedical data.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/BT105_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Benjamin Good and Timothy Putman and Andrew Su and Andra Waagmeester and Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher and Elvira Mitraka} } @conference {BT104, title = {BT105: Opportunities and challenges presented by Wikidata in the context of biocuration}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

Wikidata is a world readable and writable knowledge base maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. It offers the opportunity to collaboratively construct a fully open access knowledge graph spanning biology, medicine, and all other domains of knowledge. To meet this potential, social and technical challenges must be overcome most of which are familiar to the biocuration community. These include community ontology building, high precision information extraction, provenance, and license management. By working together with Wikidata now, we can help shape it into a trustworthy, unencumbered central node in the Semantic Web of biomedical data.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/BT105_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Benjamin Good and Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher and Elvira Mitraka and Timothy Putman and Andrew Su and Andra Waagmeester} }