| Description | ATOL (Animal Trait Ontology for Livestock) is an ontology of characteristics defining phenotypes of livestock in their environment (EOL).<br>ATOL aims to:<br>- provide a reference ontology of phenotypic traits of farm animals for the international scientific and educational - communities, farmers, etc.;<br>- deliver this reference ontology in a language which can be used by computers in order to support database management, semantic analysis and modeling;<br>- represent traits as generic as possible for livestock vertebrates;<br>- make the ATOL ontology as operational as possible and closely related to measurement techniques;<br>- structure the ontology in relation to animal production<br><br> |