SimplyOBO

SimplyOBO is a light-weight Java library for parsing and inferencing inside the OBO format. The OBO ontology format is used in the Gene Ontology project.

Introduction

SimplyOBO uses three levels of abstraction:

OBO file format syntax

The OBO file recognizes two primitives: tag-value pairs and stanzas. The former stores of information and the latter is used to group them into larger pieces.

See the LineByLineParser class for more information on parsing tag-value pairs and stanza name primitives.

Since there is no semantics defined at this level, OBO file format can be used to encode any piece of data (non-ontologies).

OBO ontology primitives

TO BE DONE

Reasoning