it is one of these misguided efforts to bring some order to life sciences but they go about it the wrong way.
It is so heavy-handed, the website so obtuse and confusing that no life scientist I know (and I have worked with hundreds of them) is even aware of let alone understand what an ontology is or how to use it.
Might be hard to believe for the uninitiated but they even got some of the namings is wrong from the start, for example, they have a GO (Gene Ontology) but that ontology is not actually describing genes! It describes gene products (like proteins) a huge big difference! Not to mention grossly misleading the very life scientists it is meant to help.
It is so heavy-handed, the website so obtuse and confusing that no life scientist I know (and I have worked with hundreds of them) is even aware of let alone understand what an ontology is or how to use it.
Might be hard to believe for the uninitiated but they even got some of the namings is wrong from the start, for example, they have a GO (Gene Ontology) but that ontology is not actually describing genes! It describes gene products (like proteins) a huge big difference! Not to mention grossly misleading the very life scientists it is meant to help.