Funding

The Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) is a community-driven project which has received support from many different sources. We list the most important ones in the following.

Volunteering efforts

A huge fraction of the work on SSSOM has been done by volunteers without dedicated grant support. We hereby acknowledge their contributions as being absolutely essential. A selection of amazing contributions (by no means exhaustive):

The development of SSSOM Java
Hundreds of careful contributions to discussions on the SSSOM issue tracker
The first draft of the Mapping Registry Cookiecutter
We try to keep track of other Community efforts here

Phenomics First (NIH / NHGRI #1RM1HG010860-01)

A lot of the groundwork of SSSOM was done to support a disease mapping project as part of the Mondo Disease Ontology, which included, but was not limited to:

Creation of a basic metadata model
Implementation of validation and parsing methods in sssom-py
Generating training materials
Organising workshops
Outreach activties to clinical communities such as OHDSI

The grant was awared to members of the Monarch Initiative.

Monarch (NIH / OD #5R24OD011883)

To support development of cross-species mappings and knowledge graph integration for the Monarch Knowledge Graph, a few new features had to be supported:

Groundwork for the Semantic Mapping Vocabulary which contains, for example, cross-species mapping properties.
The advancement of the concepts and tools behind the "Mapping Commons", including supporting the development of the Mapping Registry Cookiecutter
Various improvements to the SSSOM metadata model, including the introduction of curation rules.
The OxO2 SSSOM mapping browser

The grant was awared to members of the Monarch Initiative.

Bosch Gift to LBNL

A lot of the work on tooling was supported by a Bosch Gift to the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory (Chris Mungall group). We thank Bosch for their generous support which helped us with the following:

Implementation of conversion and testing methods in sssom-py
The development of training materials
The development of specialised matching tools such as OAK lexmatch which provided the first implementation of the SSSOM standard in a matching tool.

DARPA: Young Faculty Award W911NF2010255

A huge amount of refactoring of sssom-py and development best practices, as well as training materials, was provided through this grant (awared to Benjamin M. Gyori). Other contributions include work on the Semantic mapping reasoner and assembler