Manually Merging Terms from Other Ontologies

In order to reuse terms already defined in other ontologies these are imported into the import-modules. This is usually done automatically.

In case a manual import has to be done, this can be done via ROBOT:

This shows the example of importing realized in from RO.

1. Open a command-line in the directory the module resides in
2. Download latest version of source ontology

curl -L http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.owl > ro.owl

2. Look up URL of required term in ontologies documentation. realized in ≙ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000054

3. Extract term via ROBOT without hierarchy (see ROBOT documentation for extraction including hierarchy):

robot merge --input ro.owl extract --method MIREOT --lower-term http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000054 --upper-term owl:topObjectProperty --intermediates none --output ro-extract-manually.owl

3. Merge the term into the required module:

robot merge --input ro-extracted.owl --input ro-extract-manually.owl --output ro-extracted.owl

4. Delete ro.owl and ro-extract-manually.owl