Release note generator

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The release note generator is a tool that produces a release note, documenting the additions and deletions to an OBO ontology between releases. The tool relies on an XML file generated by the OBO-edit plugin, Ontology Change tracker. The input for this plugin is the OBO files of the previous release and the new release. The output is a XML file containing the changes - see saving history file in the OBO-edit documentation.

Release note generator takes the new release file and the XML file of the changes as input. There are 2 options.

• Validate option. The new ontology file may be validated. This validation checks the ontology file for problems such as terms with out an is_a parent.
• Submit option. Submitting both the files produces a table containing the meta data from the input fields, a summary of the changes and a list of the new relationships and terms.

Example:

RELEASE INFORMATION
Release Number:	2.4.2
Release Type:	Minor
Last Release Time:	December 09
Author:	Karen Eilbeck
New Terms Number:	53
New Definitions Number:	73
Updated Definitions Number:	47
New Synonyms Number:	69
Obsoleted Number:	0
New Relation Number:	0
No 'is_a' Parents Terms Number:	0
Terms with logical definitions Number:	225
The number of terms in the ontology:	1784
The number of defined terms:	1480
The number of terms with at least on synonym:	158

This release sees the chromosome variation terms mature, with a new postion in the ontology and textual definitions, 
and some logical definitions. The sequence_variant terms added during the   immunology workshop have been rehoused 
under sequence_collection, specifically genome and variant collection. Chromosome_variations are now kinds of 
chromosomally aberrant genome. 


New Term ID	 New Term Name
SO:0001500	heritable_phenotypic_marker
SO:0001501	peptide_collection
SO:0001502	high_identity_region
SO:0001503	processed_transcript
SO:0001504	assortment_derived_variation