{"id":101,"date":"2020-05-23T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srvubures001.uct.ac.za\/scdo\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:11:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The Sickle Cell Disease Ontology (SCDO) project was originally a collaboration between&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.h3abionet.org\/\">H3ABioNet (Pan African Bioinformatics Network)<\/a>&nbsp;and SPAN (Sickle Cell Disease Pan African Network), but is now maintained and extended by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadacc.org\/article\/73\">Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Centre (SADaCC)<\/a>, with contributions from members of the SickleInAfrica Consortium&#8217;s SCDO Working Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SCDO for Basic Researcher\" width=\"809\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZhZeeCuCBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The purpose of the SCDO is to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>establish community standardized Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) terms and descriptions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>establish canonical and hierarchical representation of knowledge on SCD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>link to other ontologies and bodies of work such as DO, PhenX, MeSH, ICD, NCI\u2019s thesaurus, SNOMED and OMIM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We anticipate the SCDO will:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>be the most comprehensive collection of knowledge in the SCD field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>facilitate exploration of new scientific questions and ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>facilitate seamless data sharing and collaborations including meta-analysis within the SDC community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>support the building of databasing and clinical informatics in SCD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sickle Cell Disease Ontology (SCDO) project was originally a collaboration between&nbsp;H3ABioNet (Pan African Bioinformatics Network)&nbsp;and SPAN (Sickle Cell Disease Pan African Network), but is now maintained and extended by the&nbsp;Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Centre (SADaCC), with contributions from members of the SickleInAfrica Consortium&#8217;s SCDO Working Group. The purpose of the SCDO is to: We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdontology.h3abionet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}