An ontology that represents the basic knowledge of physical, chemical and functional characteristics of nanotechnology as used in cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Prefix
npo
Keywords
life science molecular entity nanoparticle ontology structure
Links
Homepage Repository OWL
Publications
2010 NanoParticle Ontology for cancer nanotechnology research
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier
1731   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NanoParticle Ontology should match this regular expression:
^npo:\d+$

Example CURIE
npo:1731
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl NPO
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal NPO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.vy0p71
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 1731 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NanoParticle 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
NanoParticle Ontology npo http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/npo#NPO_1731
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/npo:1731