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Table 3.

Formal IMGT-ONTOLOGY axioms, IMGT-ONTOLOGY concepts, IMGT^® standards, and external resources.

Formal IMGT- ONTOLOGY axioms	IDENTIFICATION	DESCRIPTION	CLASSIFICATION	NUMEROTATION
IMGT-ONTOLOGY concepts^a	Concepts of identification^b (/1491)	Concepts of description^c	Concepts of classification^d	Concepts of numerotation^e,f
IMGT^® standards	IMGT^® standardized keywords	IMGT^® standardized labels	IMGT^® standardized IG and TR gene names	IMGT unique numbering IMGT Colliers de Perles
External resources (ontologies, databases, and tools)	NCI Thesaurus (/1032) Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) (/1350) Molecule role (INOH Protein name/family name ontology) (IMR) (/1029) National Drug File Reference Terminology (NDRFT) (/1352)	Sequence types and features (SO) (/1109) SNP-Ontology (/1058)	HUGO (/1528) NCI Metathesaurus (/1499) HGNC (Bruford et al., 2008) NCBI gene (Maglott et al., 2011) Ensembl (Hubbard et al., 2002) Vega (Wilming et al., 2008)	IgBlast

(/number) indicates, for ontologies at NCBO BioPortal, the identifiant to be added to http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies.

^aGiudicelli and Lefranc (1999), Lefranc et al. (2004, 2005a, 2008), Duroux et al. (2008), Lefranc (2013).

^b–fLefranc (2011b,c,d,e,f).