[http://www.sequenceontology.org/gff3.shtml GFF3] is a tab-delimited, ontology-aware format of genomic features. It should be beneficial to represent such genomic features in RDF so that we can exchange data and make queries with SW technologies.

'''Participants'''
  * Erick Antezana
  * Alberto Labarga
  * Yu Lin
  * Hideya KAWAJI
  * Venkata Satagopam
  * Jerven Bolleman
  * ...

'''Scope'''


'''Mapping GFF2RDF (proposal)'''

The following table is in a very inmature state...

|| '''GFF Element'''      || '''RDF (XML)'''                      || '''Description''' ||
|| Column 1: "seqid"      || <gff:seqid rdf:about="#ctg123">      || ?                 ||
|| Column 2: "source"     || <gff:source>1000</gff:source>        || ?                 ||
|| Column 3: "type"       || <gff:type rdf:about="#SO:0000704">   || ?                 ||
|| Column 4: "start"      || <gff:start>1000</gff:start>          || ?                 ||
|| Column 5: "end"        || <gff:stop>9000</gff:stop>            || ?                 ||
|| Column 6: "score"      || <gff:score>5.8e-42</gff:score>       || ?                 ||
|| Column 7: "strand"     || <gff:strand>+</gff:strand>           || ?                 ||
|| Column 8: "phase"      || <gff:phase>.</gff:phase>             || ?                 ||
|| Column 9: "attributes" || <gff:attributes><rdf:Description>...</rdf:Description></gff:attributes> || ?  ||

'''Tools'''

  * [http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-June/030369.html GFF to OWL] (Source code not available yet?)

'''Discussion'''
  * application to general genomic features (BED, etc)?
  * Genomic coordinate system (0-based / 1-based)
  * Dasty?

'''Milestones'''