Arachnolingua: Words about what

spiders doPeter Midford

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Why?•It’s about the behavior....•Ontologies < Ethograms

•NeuroBehavior Ontology (NBO)•Not much coverage of non-

vertebrate, non-model organisms•Why spiders?•Lots of behavioral diversity

(especially courtship)

•Experiment in ‘pre-character’ behavior data to semantic web

•Final outcome: Instance supported spider behavior terms residing in either:• in NBO or• spider behavior ontology dependent

on NBO (NBO as UBERON for behavior)

Eberhard & Huber (1998)

Ruiz et al. 2009

Arachnolingua

Taxonomy*

NBO

SPD IAO

RO

*NCBI + additional taxa from World Spider Catalog

AccessKnowledgebase: OWL (RDF/XML) in github repository:User: pmidford, project: Spider-BehaviorLongterm home:http://arachnolingua.net/ontologies/arachnolingua1.owlshould be back soon

Queryable access to on-line triple store coming soon.

Publications for inclusion are all in the ‘Spider Behavior’ Mendeley group (suggestions welcome)

AcknowledgementsJim Balhoff

Hunter Lab (Larry Hunter, Mike Bada, Kevin Livingston)

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