Logo for Vertebrate Breed Ontology

Vertebrate Breed Ontology is an ontology created to serve as a single computable resource for vertebrate breed names.

Prefix
vbo
Preferred Prefix
VBO
Keywords
obo ontology
Version
2025-11-07
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON
Publications
https://bioregistry.io/doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.02623
The Vertebrate Breed Ontology: Toward Effective Breed Data Standardization
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000038   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Vertebrate Breed Ontology should match this regular expression:
^VBO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
VBO:0000038
Pattern for RDF URIs
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_$1
Example RDF URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038
Ontology

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

Depends On (1)
NCBITaxon
In Collection (1)
NFDI4Biodiversity Collection
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 9 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl VBO
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal VBO
BiodivPortal BiodivPortal logo biodivportal VBO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal VBO
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus VBO
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry vbo
OLS EBI Ontology Lookup Service logo ols vbo
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee VBO
Wikidata (E) Wikidata Entity logo wikidata.entity Q114296193
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 0000038 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Vertebrate Breed Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Vertebrate Breed Ontology vbo http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038
Vertebrate Breed Ontology (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/vbo:0000038
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038
EBI Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/vbo/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VBO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VBO_0000038