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 ## CARO
 
+A site to develop a new version of the common anatomy reference ontology (http://www.obofoundry.org/cgi-bin/detail.cgi?id=caro).  This new version will be developed in OWL. It aims to have much clearer textual definitions than the original and to be much more formalized.  This formalization will allow auto-classification and consistency checking.
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+## Ontology 
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 The ontology is stored in src/ontology/
 
 ## Bridge Files