The karyotype ontology describes the human chromosome complement as determined cytogenetically, and is designed as an initial step toward the goal of replacing the current system which is based on semantically meaningful strings. This ontology uses a novel, semi-programmatic methodology based around the tawny library to construct many classes rapidly. Here, we describe our use case, methodology and the event-based approach that we use to represent karyotypes. The ontology is available at http://www.purl.org/ontolink/karyotype/. The clojure code is available at http://code.google.com/p/karyotype-clj/.

翻译：Karyotype肿瘤学将人类染色体补充描述为确定的细胞遗传补充,是朝着取代以具有生命意义的字符串为基础的现有系统的目标迈出的第一步。这个肿瘤学使用一种以幼小图书馆为主的新的半方案方法来迅速建造许多类。这里我们描述了我们用来代表Karyotype的用法、方法和基于事件的方法。肿瘤学见http://www.purl.org/ontolink/karyotype/。Clujure 代码见http://code.google.com/p/karyotype-clij/。