The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology (MP) classifies and organises phenotypic information related to the mouse and other mammalian species. This ontology has been applied to mouse phenotype descriptions in various databases allowing comparisons of data from diverse mammalian sources. It can facilitate in the identification of appropriate experimental disease models, and aid in the discovery of candidate disease genes and molecular signaling pathways.

Prefix

mp

Preferred Prefix

MP

Keywords

behavior developmental biology life science mammalian obo ontology phenotype physiology

Version

2024-08-08

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Sue Bello   0000-0003-4606-0597   sbello

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0005452   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Mammalian Phenotype Ontology should match this regular expression:
^MP:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

MP:0005452

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 Mammalian Phenotype Ontology, the banana looks like MP:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like MP:0005452 (instead of the canonical form 0005452) and CURIEs for this resource that look like MP:MP:0005452 (instead of the canonical form MP:0005452). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2015 Expanding the mammalian phenotype ontology to support automated exchange of high throughput mouse phenotyping data generated by large-scale mouse knockout screens
• 2012 The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology as a unifying standard for experimental and high-throughput phenotyping data
• 2009 The mammalian phenotype ontology: enabling robust annotation and comparative analysis
• 2004 The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology as a tool for annotating, analyzing and comparing phenotypic information

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

Appears In (2) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

CHIRO SCDO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 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/MP_$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 0005452 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Mammalian Phenotype 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.