2021-09-15 EFO 3.34.0

EFO 3.34.0 September 2021 release

EFO 3.34.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA, Array Express/Expression Atlas and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 206
Number of classes added: 36
Number of classes deleted: 7

2021-08-16 EFO 3.33.0

EFO 3.33.0 August 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.33.0 release includes a major re-structuring of the neoplasm branch, utilising the hierarchy curated by Mondo in order to fix a few cases of incorrect parentage and to clean up term annotations. This is a large change in the ontology and therefore if there are any issues, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Additionally, 3.33.0 includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA, Array Express/Expression Atlas and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 1149
Number of classes added: 120
Number of classes deleted: 27

2021-07-15 EFO 3.32.0

EFO 3.32.0 July 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.32.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA, Array Express/Expression Atlas and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 354
Number of classes added: 50
Number of classes deleted: 4

NOTE: Due to an issue with our Open Targets slim pipeline we have not been able to generate the efo_otar_slim.owl, but will update the release with this file ASAP.

2021-06-15 EFO 3.31.0

EFO 3.31.0 June 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.31.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA, Array Express/Expression Atlas and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 60
Number of classes added: 44
Number of classes deleted: 2

2021-05-17 EFO 3.30.0

EFO 3.30.0 May 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.30.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA, Array Express/Expression Atlas and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 89
Number of classes added: 28
Number of classes deleted: 3

2021-04-20 EFO 3.29.1

Summary:

EFO 3.29.1 patch release includes a temporary re-adding of equivalence axioms in order to fix breaking issues reported by Array Express in the sequencing and array branch.

Number of classes changed: 2101
Number of classes added: 0
Number of classes deleted: 0

2021-04-15 EFO 3.29.0

EFO 3.29.0 April 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.29.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA and the GWAS Catalog. Work is also continuing on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 7597
Number of classes added: 120
Number of classes deleted: 67

2021-03-15 EFO 3.28.0

EFO 3.28.0 March 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.27.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects, HCA and the GWAS Catalog. Work has also begun on improving our measurements branch.

Number of classes changed: 294
Number of classes added: 69
Number of classes deleted: 5

2021-02-15 EFO 3.27.0

EFO 3.17.0 February 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.27.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects and the GWAS Catalog. Added and edited terms in assay, instrument and protocol branches, for our SCEA and HCA as well as external users. There has also been an improvement in our QC.
The EFO edit file has also been switched from XML format to functional syntax, which has caused a mass deletion of trailing white space, which can be seen below in our "modified" classes.

Number of classes changed: 843
Number of classes added: 31
Number of classes deleted: 13

2021-01-18 EFO 3.26.0

EFO 3.26.0 January 2021 release.

Summary:

EFO 3.26.0 release includes further alignments between EFO and MONDO as well as terms required for Open Targets projects and the GWAS Catalog. Assay terms and instrument terms were also added for use by HCA. There has also been an improvement in our QC regarding obsolete terms.

Number of classes changed: 195
Number of classes added: 65
Number of classes deleted: 5