The BioAssay Ontology (BAO) describes chemical biology screening assays and their results including high-throughput screening (HTS) data for the purpose of categorizing assays and data analysis.

Prefix

bao

Alternative Prefixes

BAO

Keywords

biochemistry biomedical science life science ontology

Version

2.7.5

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Contact

Stephan Schurer

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0002989   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

bao:0002989

Publications

• 2014 Evolving BioAssay Ontology (BAO): modularization, integration and applications.
• 2012 Formalization, annotation and analysis of diverse drug and probe screening assay datasets using the BioAssay Ontology (BAO).
• 2011 BioAssay Ontology (BAO): a semantic description of bioassays and high-throughput screening results.
• 1975 Digitoxin metabolism by rat liver microsomes.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for bao with 2 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bao:0002989 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bao. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.