As the success of GO shows, ontologies are useful in omics research with both taxonomic and partonomic hierarchies.

The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were unprovided, Butter enough, honye, milke, and whay, And their flockes fleeces, them to araye.

'Australian Rules draws bigger crowds in Melbourne than Rugby in Sydney.' 'What?' Sydney Sam would say, 'that's not football, mate, it's aerial ping-pong.'

I was so exhausted and weak that several times, I nearly collapsed in the store. My shopping cart became my life buoy as I hung on to it and stubbornly kept going.