# $Id: ONTO-PERL.pod 2010-11-26 16:21:45Z easr $
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# see also - http://search.cpan.org/~easr/ONTO-PERL/
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# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
# at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

=head1 NAME

ONTO-PERL           - PERL modules for CCO and OBO ontologies

=head1 DESCRIPTION

'ONTO-PERL' a collection of PERL modules for dealing with the Cell
Cycle Ontology (CCO) and in general with OBO-formatted ontologies (like 
the Gene Ontology). This code distribution gathers object-oriented 
modules (for dealing with ontology elements such as Term, Relationship, 
Synonym, and so forth), scripts (for typical tasks such as 
format conversions: obo2owl, owl2obo; besides, there are also
many examples that can be easily adapted for specific applications),
and a set of test files for ensuring the implementation quality.

See also:

  1. perldoc ONTO-PERL.pod
  
  2. ONTO-PERL: An API supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies
     E. Antezana; M. Egana; B. De Baets; M. Kuiper; V. Mironov
     Bioinformatics 2008; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn042

  3. ONTO-Toolkit: A set of Galaxy tools to deal with OBO-formatted ontologies,
     http://bitbucket.org/easr/onto-toolkit

Files in 'ONTO-PERL':

  README						Readme file

  INSTALL						How to install ONTO-PERL (requirements)

  LICENSE						ONTO-PERL's license

  ONTO-PERL-x.y.tar.gz			ONTO-PERL API: version x.y

  Changes						Description about the changes in 'ONTO-PERL'


Remark:

  'ONTO-PERL' is provided "as-is". The current version is stable; 
  nonetheless, improvements are expected as well as feedback is 
  very welcome. Please visit constantly this repository for checking 
  up-to-date versions of this distribution.


Contact:

  Any comments, suggestions can be addressed to: 

    Erick Antezana
    <erick.antezana -@- gmail.com>

=head1 AUTHOR

Erick Antezana, E<lt>erick.antezana -@- gmail.comE<gt>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 by Erick Antezana

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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