Table 3 Ontologies related to BTO that model MS aspects, part II
[19] | Name | Multiple Sclerosis Ontology (MSO) |
Usage | TH, AI | |
Online | Partially (Released: 2014). The ontology is available at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MSO but the MSO for classes defined within MSPD are broken or non-existent. | |
Description | Automatically constructed ontology for terms associated with MS to enhance information retrieval models. | |
Differences | Thesaurus containing concepts related to the MS and their relation, without focusing on the patient’s clinical history. | |
[20] | Name | Universal Immune System Simulator (UISS) |
Usage | TH, AI | |
Online | No | |
Description | Ontology used to describe the specific autoimmune biochemical interactions during MS dynamics to computationally predict its course. | |
Differences | UISS focuses mainly on biochemical aspects of the MS and does not consider aspects related to the clinical history of the patients, the most relevant aspect in BTO. | |
[21] | Name | Symptomatic Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Ontology (STMSO) |
Usage | TH, KB | |
Online | Yes (Released: 2022) https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STMSO | |
Description | The STMSO is a rich ontology to model the symptomatic treatment of the patients. | |
Diffences | STMSO focuses on the symptomatic treatment and is meant to model static data. It does not allow for modelling the clinical history of the patients as a sequence of temporal events (i.e., the medical prescriptions over time). Furthermore, the ontology does not define ranges, domains, constrains, and data types for data and object properties. |