Email updates   Open Access Technical Note  OntoFox: web-based
support for ontology reuse  Zuoshuang Xiang123, Mélanie
Courtot4, Ryan R Brinkman45, Alan Ruttenberg6 and Yongqun He123*
Author Affiliations     4 Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer
Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada   6 Science
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Notes 2010, 3:175  doi:10.1186/1756-0500-3-175   Received:20
April 2010 Accepted:22 June 2010 Published:22 June 2010  © 2010
He et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.     Ontology development
is a rapidly growing area of research, especially in the life
sciences domain. To promote collaboration and interoperability
between different projects, the OBO Foundry principles require
that these ontologies be open and non-redundant, avoiding
duplication of terms through the re-use of existing resources.
As current options to do so present various difficulties, a new
approach, MIREOT, allows specif