A high level datamodel of biological entities (genes, diseases, phenotypes, pathways, individuals, substances, etc) and their associations.

Prefix
biolink
Preferred Prefix
biolink
Keywords
biomedical science functional genomics medical biotechnology medical informatics ontology translational medicine
Links
Homepage Repository OWL
Contact
Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Biolink Model should match this regular expression:
^\S+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
Gene   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biolink Model should match this regular expression:
^biolink:\S+$

Example CURIE
biolink:Gene
Metaregistry Biolink Model

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl BIOLINK
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink biolink
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal BIOLINK
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.ad9d85
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam biolink
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Gene is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biolink Model. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Biolink Model biolink https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/Gene
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/biolink:Gene
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/biolink:Gene