appears_in: []
contact:
  email: stefan.schulz@medunigraz.at
  github: steschu63
  name: Stefan Schulz
  orcid: 0000-0001-7222-3287
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: Upper-Level ontology for Biology and Medicine. Compatible with BFO, DOLCE,
  and the UMLS Semantic Network
download_owl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BioTopOntology/biotop/master/biotop.owl
example: attachedTo
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1312
homepage: http://purl.org/biotop
keywords:
- biology
- ontology
license: CC-BY-3.0
mappings:
  aberowl: BIOTOP
  bioportal: BIOTOP
  lov: biotop
  prefixcommons: biotop
name: BioTop
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: biotop
prefix: biotop
providers:
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/biotop:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp194
  pmc: PMC2687948
  pubmed: '19478019'
  title: 'Alignment of the UMLS semantic network with BioTop: methodology and assessment'
  year: 2009
- doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn158
  pmc: PMC2718636
  pubmed: '18586729'
  title: The ontology of biological taxa
  year: 2008
repository: https://github.com/BioTopOntology/biotop
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#$1
