The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.
bfo
BFO
Local identifiers in Basic Formal Ontology should match this
regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Basic Formal Ontology should match
this regular expression:
^BFO:\d{7}$
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
7 mappings to external registries for bfo
.
Registry Name | Metaprefix | External Prefix |
---|---|---|
BioPortal Prefixes | bioportal |
BFO
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.wcpd6f
|
Gene Ontology Registry | go |
BFO
|
OBO Foundry
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obofoundry |
BFO
|
Ontology Lookup Service
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ols |
bfo
|
OntoBee | ontobee |
BFO
|
Prefix Commons | prefixcommons |
BFO
|
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
bfo:0000001
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
bfo
. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.