Collaboration Gerontology

Involved Labs/Organisations (2): Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging Research, Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group

The Gerontology Ontology (the Ontology for Aging and Longevity, GERO) is a mid-level ontology representing aging-related phenomena from the molecular and cellular levels to the social and demographic level. It aims to support gerontological research by formalizing a conceptualization of the aging process, thereby making knowledge on aging machine-readable.

Following the role model of the Infectious Disease Ontology, a species-independent mid-level ontology will be constructed, from which species-specific ontologies can be derived from (e.g. GERO-Mouse, GERO-Human, etc.).

GERO aims at joining the OBO community and applies the principles for ontology development of the OBO Foundry [http://obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/category:principles].

To join the mailing list of this project, please send a mail to gero [at] denigma.de.

Contact person: Daniel Wuttke, University of Liverpool, age [at] liv.ac.uk o

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