The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) is being developed to facilitate interoperability between existing anatomy ontologies for different species, and will provide a template for building new anatomy ontologies.

Prefix

caro

Preferred Prefix

CARO

Keywords

anatomy annotation interoperability life science obo ontology

Version

2023-03-15

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Melissa Haendel   0000-0001-9114-8737   mellybelly

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000000   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Common Anatomy Reference Ontology should match this regular expression:
^CARO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

CARO:0000000

Publications

2008 CARO – The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology

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

Appears In (6) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AISM COLAO EHDAA2 GALLONT LEPAO PCO

In Collection

ASKEM Epidemiology Prefixes

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.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CARO_$1

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 0000000 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Common Anatomy Reference Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.