The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is an ontology of entities involved in a clinical encounter. OGMS includes very general terms that are used across medical disciplines, including: 'disease', 'disorder', 'disease course', 'diagnosis', 'patient', and 'healthcare provider'. OGMS uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level ontology. The scope of OGMS is restricted to humans, but many terms can be applied to a variety of organisms. OGMS provides a formal theory of disease that can be further elaborated by specific disease ontologies. This theory is implemented using OWL-DL and OBO Relation Ontology relations and is available in OWL and OBO formats. OGMS is based on the papers Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis and On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities. The ontology attempts to address some of the issues raised at the Workshop on Ontology of Diseases (Dallas, TX) and the Signs, Symptoms, and Findings Workshop(Milan, Italy). OGMS was formerly called the clinical phenotype ontology. Terms from OGMS hang from the Basic Formal Ontology.

Prefix

ogms

Preferred Prefix

OGMS

Alternative Prefixes

ogms/OMRE

Keywords

biomedical science cancer diagnosis disease disease phenotype medicine obo ontology

Version

2021-08-19

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Brian Aevermann   0000-0003-1346-1327   BAevermann

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Ontology for General Medical Science should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000031   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Ontology for General Medical Science should match this regular expression:
^OGMS:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

OGMS:0000031

Publications

• 2015 Biomarkers in the ontology for general medical science
• 2013 The neurological disease ontology
• 2009 Toward an ontological treatment of disease and diagnosis

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

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

LABO SCDO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 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/OGMS_$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 0000031 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Ontology for General Medical Science. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.