appears_in: []
contact:
  email: lynn.schriml@gmail.com
  github: lschriml
  name: Lynn Schriml
  orcid: 0000-0001-8910-9851
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The Pathogen Transmission Ontology describes the transmission methods
  of human disease pathogens describing how a pathogen is transmitted from one host,
  reservoir, or source to another host. The pathogen transmission may occur either
  directly or indirectly and may involve animate vectors or inanimate vehicles.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/trans.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/trans.owl
example: '0000024'
example_extras: []
homepage: https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/PathogenTransmissionOntology
keywords:
- biomedical science
- host
- infection process
- obo
- ontology
- pathogen
license: CC0-1.0
mappings:
  aberowl: TRANS
  biocontext: TRANS
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.jz4ea7
  obofoundry: trans
  ols: trans
  ontobee: TRANS
  prefixcommons: pt
  wikidata.entity: Q15304508
name: Pathogen Transmission Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: TRANS
prefix: trans
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/pt:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1051
  pubmed: '37953304'
  title: 'The DO-KB Knowledgebase: a 20-year journey developing the disease open science
    ecosystem'
  year: 2023
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1063
  pmc: PMC8728220
  pubmed: '34755882'
  title: The Human Disease Ontology 2022 update
  year: 2022
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp832
  pmc: PMC2808878
  pubmed: '19850722'
  title: GeMInA, Genomic Metadata for Infectious Agents, a geospatial surveillance
    pathogen database
  year: 2009
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TRANS_$1
repository: https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/PathogenTransmissionOntology
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TRANS_$1
version: '2026-03-13'
