Registry Ascomycete phenotype ontology

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A structured controlled vocabulary for the phenotypes of Ascomycete fungi.

Prefix: apo
Preferred Prefix: APO
Keywords: cell biology genomics life cycle stage life science morphology mutation obo ontology phenomics phenotype study design
Version: 2026-03-14
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Publications: 2009 New mutant phenotype data curation system in the Saccharomyces Genome Database
References: GitHub PR https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1098

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in Ascomycete phenotype ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 0000184 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Ascomycete phenotype ontology should match this regular expression:
^APO:\d{7}$
Example CURIE: APO:0000184
Pattern for RDF URIs: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_$1
Example RDF URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184

Contacts

Contact: Stacia R Engel 0000-0001-5472-917X srengel
Contributors: contributor Sumir H Pandit 0000-0002-1216-4761 sumirp

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 8 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`APO`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`APO`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`APO`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.dyqz3y`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`apo`
OLS	`ols`	`apo`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`APO`
Wikidata (E)	`wikidata.entity`	`Q81661535`

Providers

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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 0000184 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Ascomycete phenotype 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
Ascomycete phenotype ontology	`apo`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184
Ascomycete phenotype ontology (RDF)	`rdf`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/apo:0000184
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184
EBI Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/apo/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/APO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APO_0000184

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("apo")
'2026-03-14'

This name annotation was originally annotated in OBO Foundry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("apo")
'Ascomycete phenotype ontology'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("apo")
'CC-BY-4.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("apo")
'http://www.yeastgenome.org/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("apo")
'https://github.com/obophenotype/ascomycete-phenotype-ontology'

Get the OBO download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_obo_download("apo")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/apo.obo'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("apo")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/apo.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("apo")
'Stacia R Engel'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("apo")
'stacia@stanford.edu'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("apo")
'srengel'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("apo")
'0000-0001-5472-917X'