The BioAssay Ontology (BAO) describes chemical biology screening assays and their results including high-throughput screening (HTS) data for the purpose of categorizing assays and data analysis.

Prefix

bao

Alternative Prefixes

BAO

Keywords

assay biochemistry biological process biomedical science cell chemical entity life science molecular entity ontology protein reagent target

Version

2.8.11

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Stephan Schurer

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioAssay Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0002989   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioAssay Ontology should match this regular expression:
^bao:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

bao:0002989

Publications

• 2014 Evolving BioAssay Ontology (BAO): modularization, integration and applications
• 2012 Formalization, annotation and analysis of diverse drug and probe screening assay datasets using the BioAssay Ontology (BAO)
• 2011 BioAssay Ontology (BAO): a semantic description of bioassays and high-throughput screening results
• 1975 Digitoxin metabolism by rat liver microsomes

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

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 0002989 is used to demonstrate the providers available for BioAssay Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.