Common Upper Mammalian Brain Ontology (CUMBO)

" The INCF PONS program has produced a Common Upper Mammalian Brain Ontology (CUMBO) in order to build ontologies in relation to 3D anatomy (Osumi-Sutherland et al., 2012). The CUMBO creates formal definitions (i.e., machine processable) for the types of structures we commonly describe in neuroanatomy.  The group reviewed common terms, e.g., nucleus, nerve, and provided a standard definition.  The rationale for the CUMBO and the preliminary work can be accessed on the Common Upper Mammalian Brain Ontology wiki page. The first set of CUMBO terms with their definitions may be viewed and accessed through Neurolex, which has created pages for each of these terms, where the community can review and contribute to definitions.  Some additional terms were also added.  The CUMBO terms are used to categorize structures in the Structural Lexicon where appropriate. The CUMBO terms can be downloaded from Neurolex as a spreadsheet or are available in RDF via theNeurolex SPARQL endpoint. Some examples of how the CUMBO can be used to generate useful indices of nervous system structures can be seen in Neurolex, which lists all structures considered to be tracts, nuclei, decussations etc. " ---- INCF PONS Program 

The Linked Brain Data team developed the first OWL and linked data version of the CUMBO ontology, with the following additions:

• Terms are organized in a hierarchy with "sub-class of" relation or "part-of" relation among different terms for Mammalian Brain. Hence, by using structured query language, one can easily find "word terms that are part of the Brain", or "word terms that are sub class of neuron".
• Assigning each word terms in CUMBO with a URL starting with "http://www.incf.org/resources/***", so that later, this word term can be linked to other terms in different ontologies.
• Links from CUMBO terms to DBPedia/Wikipedia has been added. This enables CUMBO to be linked with other resources in the linked open data cloud automatically.
• Chinese translations for all CUMBO ontology terms are available in this OWL version, for example, one can also form a query to lookup the Chinese character for "Nerve".
• A tutorial has been made, as enclosed word file, showing how to use this version of the CUMBO ontology.

Various Ways to Get CUMBO Resources

• The OWL version of CUMBO [Download].
• The tutorial for the use of CUMBO [Download].
• View CUMBO contents through LBD SPARQL Endpoint .
• Use CUMBO on Linked Brain Data [SPARQL interface].