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Use Cases
The Disease Ontology is utilized extensively in biomedical and bioinformatics research, by both scientists conducting primary research and those creating research tools for others. Some of those research tools designed for reuse by the broader scientific community that have used the Disease Ontology are listed here. These have been grouped into three categories: ontologies, resources, and methodologies.
Ontologies
The Disease Ontology is utilized to build other biomedical ontologies. These application ontologies either reuse DO's terms and/or IDs (often as PURLs, unique URL based IDs, e.g. http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_4) or map to DOIDs as ontology cross references (xrefs), synonyms or annotations. To date, the Disease Ontology is being utilized by more than 50 other biomedical ontologies:
Resources
We actively seek collaborations with other data resources and users to improve data integration, share efforts, and make our data maximally useful to biologists and bioinformaticians. Here are a list of databases, software tools and other web resources that: i) support the use of DO data, ii) have integrated or were built using DO data, or iii) provide data linkages to the DO website. If we are missing your database, software tool or web resource, please contact us.
Methodologies
Many algorithms, frameworks, software tools, workflows and state-of-the art methods designed for (re)use and implementation by the scientific community incorporate the Disease Ontology. These "methodologies", which have not been incorporated into an existing software tool, database, or web resource or are not freely available, include: