XSPAN - A Cross-Species Anatomy Project

XSPAN-SAEL

SAEL is an independent worldwide collaboration. XSPAN actively participates in the development and promotion of SAEL. As part of the collaboration, we make available a version of the XSPAN user interface which allows access to the SAEL WebService and mappings.

SAEL is a freely available selection of cross-species anatomical terms relevant to functional genomics.

Under the umbrella of SOFG (Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics), it provides an entry point to anatomical resources via mapping to concepts in those resources. A resource is defined as a controlled vocabulary or ontology consisting of identified anatomical terms which are freely available.