Suggest a term to VariO

VariO is intended to be a community wide standard for variation effect description and annotation. We welcome feedback and suggestions from the community to make improvements.

We will constantly develop the ontology, and we are happy to receive suggestion on how to improve it.

Like any ontology, VariO contains three items for every term. There is the name of the term, which is descriptive, definition of the term and relation(s) of the term to other term(s). Please provide all this information, at least the name and the relations if you suggest additions.

We have tried to keep a balance between the depth and clarity of the terms. It is certainly possible to make even more fine-grained descriptions and terms for the consequences of variations, however, there may not be many known cases for these very detailed terms. Therefore we have aimed at being able to describe almost all consequences, effects and mechanism at least at some level.

Please send feedback to mauno.vihinen@med.lu.se.