appears_in:
- ado
- agro
- aism
- cdno
- colao
- duo
- ecocore
- epio
- foodon
- fovt
- hso
- lepao
- mco
- ons
- pcl
- pco
- psdo
- rbo
- uberon
- xpo
- zp
contact:
  email: phismith@buffalo.edu
  github: phismith
  name: Barry Smith
  orcid: 0000-0003-1384-116X
depends_on:
- dcterms
- foaf
- iao
- owl
- rdf
- rdfs
- xml
- xsd
deprecated: false
description: The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl
example: '0000001'
example_extras: []
homepage: http://ifomis.org/bfo/
keywords:
- data identity and mapping
- data retrieval
- dataplant
- fairmat
- foundational ontologies
- nfdi4cat
- nfdi4chem
- nfdi4ing
- nfdixcs
- obo
- ontology
- subject agnostic
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/12972134?v=3&s=200
mappings:
  aberowl: BFO
  agroportal: BFO
  bartoc: '216'
  biocontext: BFO
  biodivportal: BFO
  bioportal: BFO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.wcpd6f
  go: BFO
  obofoundry: bfo
  ols: bfo
  ontobee: BFO
  tib: bfo
  wikidata.entity: Q4866972
name: Basic Formal Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: BFO
prefix: bfo
providers: []
publications: []
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_$1
repository: https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_$1
version: '2019-08-26'
