appears_in:
- agro
- cdno
- ecocore
- ecto
- foodon
- ons
- pco
- rbo
- scdo
- uberon
banana: ENVO
contact:
  email: pier.buttigieg@awi.de
  github: pbuttigieg
  name: Pier Luigi Buttigieg
  orcid: 0000-0002-4366-3088
depends_on:
- chebi
- foodon
- go
- ncbitaxon
- pco
- po
- ro
- uberon
deprecated: false
description: The Environment Ontology is a resource and research target for the semantically
  controlled description of environmental entities. The ontology's initial aim was
  the representation of the biomes, environmental features, and environmental materials
  pertinent to genomic and microbiome-related investigations.
download_json: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.json
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl
example: 09200010
example_extras: []
homepage: http://environmentontology.org/
keywords:
- dataplant
- earth sciences
- ecology
- environmental material
- environmental science
- epidemiology
- ess
- fair data spaces
- life science
- life sciences, biology
- marine metagenome
- microbiome
- nfdi4cat
- nfdi4chem
- nutritional science
- obo
- ontology
license: CC0-1.0
logo: https://obofoundry.org/images/envo.png
mappings:
  aberowl: ENVO
  agroportal: ENVO
  bartoc: '562'
  biocontext: ENVO
  biodivportal: ENVO
  bioportal: ENVO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.azqskx
  miriam: envo
  n2t: envo
  obofoundry: envo
  ols: envo
  ontobee: ENVO
  tib: envo
  wikidata.entity: Q31110555
name: Environment Ontology
namespace_in_lui: true
pattern: ^\d{7,8}$
preferred_prefix: ENVO
prefix: envo
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1186/s13326-016-0097-6
  pmc: PMC5035502
  pubmed: '27664130'
  title: 'The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope,
    semantic density, and interoperation'
  year: 2016
- doi: 10.1093/database/baw005
  pmc: PMC4761108
  pubmed: '26896844'
  title: 'EXTRACT: interactive extraction of environment metadata and term suggestion
    for metagenomic sample annotation'
  year: 2016
- doi: 10.7717/peerj.1470
  pmc: PMC4690371
  pubmed: '26713234'
  title: Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment
  year: 2015
- doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-43
  pmc: PMC3904460
  pubmed: '24330602'
  title: 'The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities'
  year: 2013
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_$1
repository: https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_$1
version: '2026-06-26'
