Registry FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits

FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits is an application ontology used to convert vertebrate trait data in spreadsheet to triples. FOVT leverages the BioCollections Ontology (BCO) to link observations of individual specimens to their trait values. Traits are defined in the Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA).

Prefix: fovt
Preferred Prefix: FOVT
Keywords: obo ontology
Version: 2026-03-19
License: CC0-1.0
Links: Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 0000009 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits should match this regular expression:
^FOVT:\d{7}$
Example CURIE: FOVT:0000009
Pattern for RDF URIs: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_$1
Example RDF URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009

Contacts

Contact: Meghan Balk 0000-0003-2699-3066 megbalk

Ontology

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

Depends On (8) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 ): BCO BFO BSPO IAO OBA PATO RO UBERON

Metaregistry FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`FOVT`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`FOVT`
EcoPortal	`ecoportal`	`FOVT`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`fovt`
OLS	`ols`	`fovt`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`FOVT`
Wikidata (E)	`wikidata.entity`	`Q113012661`

Providers

Suggest

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 0000009 is used to demonstrate the providers available for FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits	`fovt`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009
FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits (RDF)	`rdf`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/fovt:0000009
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009
EBI Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/fovt/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/FOVT/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOVT_0000009

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("fovt")
'2026-03-19'

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("fovt")
'FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("fovt")
'CC0-1.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("fovt")
'https://github.com/futres/fovt'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("fovt")
'https://github.com/futres/fovt'

Get the OBO download link:

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

Get the OWL download link:

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

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("fovt")
'Meghan Balk'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("fovt")
'meghan.balk@gmail.com'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("fovt")
'megbalk'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("fovt")
'0000-0003-2699-3066'