Bravo! ... Thank you, Ed, for forwarding the good news. Kindly relay
our joy and appreciations to those who took the initiatives to 'open'
this up for everyone. =ppy (01)
On 11/16/06, Ed Dodds <dodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (forwarded from AMIA's NLP WG)
> -----Original Message-----
> [Apologies for cross-posting. Please redistribute to anyone who might be
> interested]
> Friends and colleagues,
> In response to the increasing demand from the life science and
> biomedical informatics communities and the private industry for an anatomy
> ontology
> that can empower computer applications in biomedicine and provide a
> basic science framework for the integration of biological data from
> different
> sources, the University of Washington and the FMA Ontology Research team
> hereby release the open source license for the Foundational Model of
> Anatomy (FMA) ontology and grant licensees a perpetual, worldwide,
> non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license to reproduce,
> publicly display, publicly perform, prepare modifications of, and
> distribute the FMA ontology with or without modifications.
> For more information on the availability, terms and conditions of the
> license and on how to access and download the Release version of the FMA
> ontology please visit the FMA Ontology Research Project site at
> http://fma.biostr.washington.edu/license
> It is our intent to provide the FMA as an open source to stimulate,
> foster and promote greater collaboration and interaction between research
> efforts in the development of biomedical ontologies and their applications,
> computational applications for basic science and clinical domains of
> biology as well as all areas of health care delivery and management.
> I will be happy to answer any question you may have regarding the
> license, content or implementation of the FMA Ontology.
>
> Sincerely,
> Onard Mejino MD
> FMA Ontology Research Project
> Structural Informatics Group
> Department of Biological Structure
> University of Washington School of Medicine
> Seattle, WA 98195
> Office: 206-543-7118 FAX: 206-543-1524
>
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