FoodOn Beta v0.4.8 release

This release brings the replacement of over 1,600 foodon plant and animal species terms with their NCBITaxon equivalents, which now carry all the annotations that the foodon terms had. The separation previously existed because NCBITaxon entities were not thought to necessarily be references to whole organisms, but this attitude is now clear, thus removing the need for corresponding FoodOn entities. A next task will be to ensure as many remaining foodon plant and animal entities can be associated with NCBITaxon as possible; however NCBITaxon isn't a comprehensive taxonomy as it covers only sequenced organisms.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.7 release

Numerous updates, including removal of a bad equivalence on "mammal" class.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.6 release

Many term edits to support text-mining; as well beginning nutritional measurement datum term support. Switched to RO 'in taxon' from 'has taxonomic identifier'

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.5 release

Includes edits for upcoming FOBI ontology for food biomarkers.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.4 release

Involves numerous edits to food products that required entries or synonyms in ordere to match to LexMapr biosample datasets.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.3 release

Numerous edits including shortened food source labels, and 30+ SciBite requests.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.2 release

Correction - previous release was supposed to have Nov 1 content, which this one now has.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.1 release

Numerous term edits; simplified ENVO import; 460 terms remaining in "to be processed" list.

FoodOn Alpha v0.4.0 release

The major work done in this version is the inclusion of over 9,000 food product categories derived from the LanguaL indexed SIREN database (http://www.langual.org/langual_indexed_datasets.asp) directly into foodon.owl. Previously they were in a very tentative hierarchy in the subset_siren_import.owl file. These are now positioned under a "food product type" -> "foodon product type" tree (along with food products inherited from ENVO). This is the native FoodOn product hierarchy; other agency and miscellaneous categorizations are also apparent under "food product type". An effort in the next year will be to cross reference FoodOn's native categories with the others. We will also be adding Wikipedia definitions where the connection is obvious. Note that an outstanding list of over 600 "food product type (to be processed)" items remain to be categorized but is included in that class for identifier retrieval in the meantime.

FoodOn Alpha v0.3.1 release

This release adjusts one aspect of FoodOn that was a bit odd, namely that this brand new ontology came with hundreds of deprecated terms. These items haven't been in circulation as FoodOn terms. These terms exist only to facilitate import of existing LanguaL food indexed database items, in order to keep track of food items that need their logical equivalency axiom to be revised. FoodOn deprecated all of LanguaL's "[food item] added" terms, and replaced many with references to "has substance added" some "[food item]". This update sequesters all deprecated terms to a langual_deprecated_import.owl file, and revises the subset_siren_import.owl to reference deprecated terms appropriately.