The Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (CDAO) provides a framework for understanding data in the context of evolutionary-comparative analysis. This comparative approach is used commonly in bioinformatics and other areas of biology to draw inferences from a comparison of differently evolved versions of something, such as differently evolved versions of a protein. In this kind of analysis, the things-to-be-compared typically are classes called 'OTUs' (Operational Taxonomic Units). The OTUs can represent biological species, but also may be drawn from higher or lower in a biological hierarchy, anywhere from molecules to communities. The features to be compared among OTUs are rendered in an entity-attribute-value model sometimes referred to as the 'character-state data model'. For a given character, such as 'beak length', each OTU has a state, such as 'short' or 'long'. The differences between states are understood to emerge by a historical process of evolutionary transitions in state, represented by a model (or rules) of transitions along with a phylogenetic tree. CDAO provides the framework for representing OTUs, trees, transformations, and characters. The representation of characters and transformations may depend on imported ontologies for a specific type of character.

Prefix
cdao
Preferred Prefix
CDAO
Keywords
bioinformatics biomedical science evolution evolutionary biology life science molecular biology obo ontology phylogenetics taxonomy
Version
2022-11-30
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage Repository OWL
Contact
Jim Balhoff   0000-0002-8688-6599   balhoff
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Comparative Data Analysis Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000072   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Comparative Data Analysis Ontology should match this regular expression:
^CDAO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
CDAO:0000072
Publications
2009 Initial implementation of a comparative data analysis ontology
Metaregistry Comparative Data Analysis Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl CDAO
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal CDAO
BioContext biocontext CDAO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal CDAO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.kay31r
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry cdao
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols cdao
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee CDAO
RDF Information

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_$1

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE CDAO:0000072 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Comparative Data Analysis Ontology cdao http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_0000072
Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_0000072
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/cdao:0000072
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_0000072
Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/cdao/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_0000072
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/CDAO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDAO_0000072