The Population and Community Ontology (PCO) describes material entities, qualities, and processes related to collections of interacting organisms such as populations and communities. It is taxon neutral, and can be used for any species, including humans. The classes in the PCO are useful for describing evolutionary processes, organismal interactions, and ecological experiments. Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology.

Prefix
pco
Preferred Prefix
PCO
Keywords
biodiversity community care ecology evolution obo ontology population genetics social and behavioural science
Version
2021-05-03
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Contact
Ramona Walls   0000-0001-8815-0078   ramonawalls
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000021   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^PCO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
PCO:0000021
Ontology

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

Depends On (8) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )
BFO CARO ENVO GO IAO NCBITaxon PATO RO
Appears In (2) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )
ECOCORE ENVO
Metaregistry Population and Community Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl PCO
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal PCO
BioContext biocontext PCO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal PCO
EcoPortal EcoPortal logo ecoportal PCO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.vq28qp
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry pco
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols pco
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee PCO
RDF Information

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

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

Providers

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 0000021 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Population and Community Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Population and Community Ontology pco http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000021
Population and Community Ontology (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000021
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/pco:0000021
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000021
Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/pco/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000021
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCO_0000021