Sequence Ontology

{{Short description|Ontology for annotation of sequences}}

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|center = WormBase, FlyBase, the Mouse Genome Informatics group, and the Sanger Institute

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The Sequence Ontology (SO) is an ontology suitable for describing biological sequences.{{cite journal |vauthors= Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M |title= The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations |journal= Genome Biology |volume= 6 |issue= 5 |pages= R44 |year= 2005 |pmid= 15892872 |pmc= 1175956 |doi= 10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r44 |author-link5= Lincoln Stein |author-link6= Richard M. Durbin |author-link7= Michael Ashburner |author-link2= Suzanna Lewis |doi-access= free }}{{cite journal |vauthors= Mungall CJ, Batchelor C, Eilbeck K |title= Evolution of the Sequence Ontology terms and relationships |journal= Journal of Biomedical Informatics |volume= 44 |issue= 1 |pages= 87–93 |date= Feb 2011 |pmid= 20226267 |pmc= 3052763 |doi= 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.002}} It is designed to make the naming of DNA sequence features and variants consistent and therefore machine-readable and searchable.