The Sickle Cell Disease Ontology (SCDO) project is a collaboration between H3ABioNet (Pan African Bioinformatics Network) and SPAN (Sickle Cell Disease Pan African Network).

The purpose of the SCDO is to:

• establish community standardized SCD terms and descriptions.
• establish canonical and hierarchical representation of knowledge on SCD.
• link to other ontologies and bodies of work such as DO, PhenX MeSH, ICD, NCI’s thesaurus, SNOMED and OMIM.

Once complete, we anticipate that the ontology will:

• be the most comprehensive collection of knowledge in the SCD.
• facilitate exploration of new scientific questions and ideas.
• facilitate seamless data sharing and collaborations including meta-analysis within the SDC community.
• support the building of databasing and clinical informatics in SCD.