Table 9.
Examination of a Set of Commonly-Used Ontologies for the Representation of Contents Referred by the Lexical Information Guidelines: Column 1 indicates the ontologies by their acronyms; and the rest of columns show the results for each ontology on the lexical guidelines. L1-L10 indicate the particular guideline.
| Ontology | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | L5 | L6 | L7 | L8 | L9 | L10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA | N1 | N1 | N1 | N1 | NA | N2 | N2 | Y | NA | N1 |
| BFO | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N1 | N1 | Y | N1 | N1 |
| BioPax | N1 | N1 | N1 | N1 | N2 | N2 | N2 | NA | N1 | N1 |
| BIRNLex | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | N1 | N2 | NA | N2 | N2 |
| BRO | NA | NA | NA | NA | N2 | Y | NA | N2 | N3 | N2 |
| DermLex | N2 | NA | NA | NA | N2 | N2 | N2 | NA | N2 | N2 |
| EFO | Y | N2 | NA | NA | N2 | NA | N2 | NA | N2 | N2 |
| FMA | N1 | N2 | NA | NA | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 | N1 |
| GALEN | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | N1 | NA | NA | NA |
| MGED | Y | Y | NA | NA | N2 | NA | N2 | NA | NA | N1 |
| NCIt | Y | NA | NA | NA | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 |
| NIFSTD | Y | Y | Y | NA | N3 | Y | N3 | N3 | Y | Y |
| OBI | Y | Y | Y | Y | N1 | N1 | N3 | N3 | N1 | N3 |
| OCRe | NA | N2 | NA | NA | NA | N1 | NA | NA | N2 | N1 |
| RedLex | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 | N2 |
A “Y” indicates that the ontology uses the representation method proposed by the guideline; an “NA” indicates that the ontology does not contain the information referred by the guideline; and an “N” indicates that the ontology does not use the representation method proposed by the guideline, where an “N1” indicates that the ontology uses an W3C recommendation tag to represent the content, but the tag was used either in an ambiguous or improper way; an “N2” indicates that the ontology uses a self-defined property; and an “N3” indicates that the ontology uses a property defined by another ontology.