The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is a biomedical informatics ontology. It is concerned with the representation of classes or types and relationships necessary for the symbolic representation of the phenotypic structure of the human body. Specifically, the FMA is a domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy.

Prefix

fma

Preferred Prefix

FMA

Alternative Prefixes

FMA_RETIRED FMAID

Keywords

anatomy biomedical science brain imaging human obo ontology owl phenotype radiology

Version

2020-04-13

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Onard Mejino

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Foundational Model of Anatomy should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

63189   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Foundational Model of Anatomy should match this regular expression:
^FMA:\d+$

Example CURIE

FMA:63189

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Foundational Model of Anatomy, the banana looks like FMA:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like FMA:63189 (instead of the canonical form 63189) and CURIEs for this resource that look like FMA:FMA:63189 (instead of the canonical form FMA:63189). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2016 From frames to OWL2: Converting the Foundational Model of Anatomy
• 2008 Translating the Foundational Model of Anatomy into OWL
• 2006 The foundational model of anatomy in OWL: Experience and perspectives
• 2004 The foundational model of anatomy: a template for the symbolic representation of multi-scale physiological functions
• 2005 Challenges in converting frame-based ontology into OWL: the Foundational Model of Anatomy case-study
• 2003 A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the Foundational Model of Anatomy

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 16 mappings to external registries for this resource with 7 unique external prefixes.

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_$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 63189 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Foundational Model of Anatomy. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.