Uberon is an integrated cross-species anatomy ontology representing a variety of entities classified according to traditional anatomical criteria such as structure, function and developmental lineage. The ontology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype and expression data.

Prefix

uberon

Preferred Prefix

UBERON

Alternative Prefixes

Uber-anatomy ontology UBERON Uberon

Keywords

anatomy developmental biology life science obo ontology taxonomy

Version

2024-11-25

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Uber Anatomy Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

2005080   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Uber Anatomy Ontology should match this regular expression:
^UBERON:\d+$

Example CURIE

UBERON:2005080

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 Uber Anatomy Ontology, the banana looks like UBERON:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like UBERON:2005080 (instead of the canonical form 2005080) and CURIEs for this resource that look like UBERON:UBERON:2005080 (instead of the canonical form UBERON:2005080). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2014 Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon
• 2012 Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology

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

Depends On (12) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

BFO BSPO CHEBI CL ENVO GO NBO NCBITaxon OMO PATO PR RO

Appears In (26) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AISM AMPHX CHIRO CL CLO CLYH COLAO CTENO ECAO ECOCORE ECTO ENVO FOODON FOVT GENEPIO GO HSO LEPAO MAXO MCO MFMO ONS PCL PLANA PORO ZP

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 13 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_$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 2005080 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Uber Anatomy 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.