ATOL (Animal Trait Ontology for Livestock) is an ontology of characteristics defining phenotypes of livestock in their environment (EOL). ATOL aims to:
- provide a reference ontology of phenotypic traits of farm animals for the international scientific and educational
- communities, farmers, etc.;
- deliver this reference ontology in a language which can be used by computers in order to support database management, semantic analysis and modeling;
- represent traits as generic as possible for livestock vertebrates;
- make the ATOL ontology as operational as possible and closely related to measurement techniques;
- structure the ontology in relation to animal production
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