Logo for Pathway ontology The Pathway Ontology captures information on biological networks, the relationships between netweorks and the alterations or malfunctioning of such networks within a hierarchical structure. The five main branches of the ontology are: classic metabolic pathways, regulatory, signaling, drug, and disease pathwaysfor complex human conditions.

Prefix
pw
Preferred Prefix
PW
Keywords
biological regulation disease drug drug metabolism enzymatic reaction human life science mathematical model molecular entity network model obo ontology pathway pathway model signaling
Version
7.85
License
CC-BY-4.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Contact
G. Thomas Hayman   0000-0002-9553-7227   gthayman
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Pathway ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0000423   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Pathway ontology should match this regular expression:
^PW:\d{7}$

Example CURIE
PW:0000423
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 Pathway ontology, the banana looks like PW:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like PW:0000423 (instead of the canonical form 0000423) and CURIEs for this resource that look like PW:PW:0000423 (instead of the canonical form PW:0000423). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.
Publications
Metaregistry Pathway ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl PW
BioContext biocontext PW
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal PW
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.f73xhd
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam pw
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t pw
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry pw
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols pw
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee PW
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons pw
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P7333
RDF Information

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_$1

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 0000423 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Pathway ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Pathway ontology pw http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_0000423
Pathway ontology (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_0000423
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/pw:0000423
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/PW:0000423
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_0000423
Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/pw/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_0000423
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/pw:0000423
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PW/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PW_0000423
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/pw:0000423
miriam_obo_legacy MIRIAM OBO Legacy http://identifiers.org/obo.pw/PW:0000423