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Standardize uo.md metadata formatting
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Expand Up @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ description: Metrical units for use in conjunction with PATO
domain: phenotype
homepage: https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/unit-ontology
license:
label: CC BY 3.0
url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
label: CC BY 4.0
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
preferredPrefix: UO
products:
- id: uo.owl
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title: 'The Units Ontology: a tool for integrating units of measurement in science'
repository: https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/unit-ontology
tracker: https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/unit-ontology/issues
usages:

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@leechuck Since the goal is to highlight that UO has been used by many other OBO ontologies, another way of expressing this usage information would be as follows:

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usages:
usages:
- description: UO has been used in various OBO ontologies, including the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), The Statistical Methods Ontology (STATO), and HUGO-PSI Mass spectrometry ontology (MS).
examples:
- description: List of ontologies using at least one UO term (See section entitled "Info: Which ontologies use it?")
url: http://dashboard.obofoundry.org/dashboard/uo/dashboard.html
- description: List of ontologies using the term "length unit" (See section entitled "Ontologies that use the Class")
url: https://ontobee.org/ontology/UO?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UO_0000001
type: owl_import
user: (multiple)

- description: The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) uses UO terms to specify the units of measurement values recorded in investigations.
type: ontology
user: http://obi-ontology.org/
- description: The HUPO-PSI mass spectrometry controlled vocabulary (PSI-MS) uses UO terms as the units of the quantitative terms it defines for the mzML and related PSI data standards.
publications:
- id: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23482073
title: The HUPO proteomics standards initiative- mass spectrometry controlled vocabulary
type: ontology
user: https://www.psidev.info/
- description: STATO, the statistical methods ontology, uses UO terms to type the units of the statistical measures and parameters it defines.
type: ontology
user: http://stato-ontology.org/
activity_status: active
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