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We are pleased to announce the new release of NIFSTD 1.7. Please visit http://purl.org/nif/ontology/nif.owl to access the owl file.

Major changes of this release include:

Retirement of OBO-UBO layer: Eliminated the need of BIRNLex-OBO-UBO module (a common bridge between all NIF modules and BFO) to be imported

Content Enhancement and Improvements:
- Inclusion of Protein Ontology (PRO) under NIF-Molecule module.
  - A bridge file has been generated to assign equivalencies between NIF-Molecule and PRO mapping terms (based on exact or synonymous lexical matches). It also places the PRO terms under NIF’s macromolecule. Bridge file location: http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Molecule-PRO-Bridge.owl
- Molecules hierarchy has been modified to reflect close alignment between NIF’s Chemical and CHEBI’s upper level hierarchies
- More neuron labels are altered in NIF-Cell module to conform with standardized naming convention by NIF cell working group
- Additional partonomy relations for NIF-Anatomy
- New classes and annotations from NeuroLex wiki contributions in different modules

Neuron by Brain Region classification: Another bridge file (between NIF-Cell, NIF-Subcellular, and NIF-Anatomy) has been constructed based on NeuroLex contributions by NIF-Cell working group.

Feel free to take a look at the detailed NIFSTD 1.7 release notes and tell us what you think!

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