The Ontology for Biobanking (OBIB) is an ontology for the annotation and modeling of the activities, contents, and administration of a biobank. Biobanks are facilities that store specimens, such as bodily fluids and tissues, typically along with specimen annotation and clinical data. OBIB is based on a subset of the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI), has the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its upper ontology, and is developed following OBO Foundry principles. The first version of OBIB resulted from the merging of two existing biobank-related ontologies, OMIABIS and biobank ontology.

Prefix

obib

Preferred Prefix

OBIB

Keywords

biobank health science obo ontology

Version

2023-04-05

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Justin Whorton   0009-0003-4268-6207   jmwhorton

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Ontology for Biobanking should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000389   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Ontology for Biobanking should match this regular expression:
^OBIB:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

OBIB:0000389

Publications

2016 OBIB-a novel ontology for biobanking

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.

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBIB_$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 0000389 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Ontology for Biobanking. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.