A high level datamodel of biological entities (genes, diseases, phenotypes, pathways, individuals, substances, etc) and their associations.

Prefix
biolink
Preferred Prefix
biolink
Keywords
ontology
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage OWL RDF
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioLink Model should match this regular expression:
^\S+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
Gene   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioLink Model should match this regular expression:
^biolink:\S+$

Example CURIE
biolink:Gene
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)
GHGA Collection
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 5 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl BIOLINK
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink biolink
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal BIOLINK
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam biolink
OLS EBI Ontology Lookup Service logo ols biolink
Providers

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 Gene is used to demonstrate the providers available for BioLink Model. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
BioLink Model biolink https://biolink.github.io/biolink-model/Gene
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/biolink:Gene
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/biolink:Gene