Figure 1

Relations between the Molecule ontology of IMGT-ONTOLOGY that comprises concepts of identification, description and numerotation [3–6]and the CMM-Ontology that allowed to define concepts of interactions, a novel component of IMGT-ONTOLOGY (this paper). Whereas the concepts of identification, description and numerotation were defined to manage data in IMGT databases and tools and therefore immunogenetic knowledge in normal and pathological conditions (cancer, allergy, autoimmune disease...) [6, 10], the concepts of identification were defined from mathematical and statistical models related to vaccination protocol [11, 12].