The Human Chromosome Ontology (HCO) provides simple and stable URIs for human reference genome versions to semantically identify human chromosomes.

Prefix
hco
Links
Homepage
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Human Chromosome Ontology should match this regular expression:
^.+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
MT   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Human Chromosome Ontology should match this regular expression:
^hco:.+$

Example CURIE
hco:MT
Contacts
Contact
Missing Contact
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam hco
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 MT is used to demonstrate the providers available for Human Chromosome Ontology. 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
Human Chromosome Ontology hco http://biohackathon.org/resource/hco#MT
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/hco:MT
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/hco:MT