An ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies.

Prefix

bspo

Preferred Prefix

BSPO

Keywords

anatomy life science obo ontology

Version

2023-05-27

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Biological Spatial Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000029   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Biological Spatial Ontology should match this regular expression:
^BSPO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

BSPO:0000029

Publications

2014 Nose to tail, roots to shoots: spatial descriptors for phenotypic diversity in the Biological Spatial Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Appears In (6) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AISM COLAO FOVT LEPAO UBERON ZP

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BSPO_$1

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 0000029 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biological Spatial Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.