The chemical information ontology (cheminf) describes information entities about chemical entities. It provides qualitative and quantitative attributes to richly describe chemicals.

Prefix

cheminf

Preferred Prefix

CHEMINF

Keywords

biochemistry chemistry life science molecular entity molecular structure obo ontology

Version

2.1.0

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Egon Willighagen   0000-0001-7542-0286   egonw

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Chemical Information Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{6}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

000410   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Chemical Information Ontology should match this regular expression:
^CHEMINF:\d{6}$

Example CURIE

CHEMINF:000410

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Chemical Information Ontology, the banana looks like CHEMINF:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like CHEMINF:000410 (instead of the canonical form 000410) and CURIEs for this resource that look like CHEMINF:CHEMINF:000410 (instead of the canonical form CHEMINF:000410). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

2011 The chemical information ontology: provenance and disambiguation for chemical data on the biological semantic web

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

Appears In (1) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

PROCO

In Collection

NDFI4Cat Collection

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/CHEMINF_$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 000410 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Chemical Information 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.