Registry Basic Formal Ontology

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Logo for Basic Formal Ontology The upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built.

Prefix: bfo
Preferred Prefix: BFO
Keywords: obo ontology subject agnostic
Version: 2019-08-26
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage Repository OBO OWL
Contact: Barry Smith 0000-0003-1384-116X phismith
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in Basic Formal Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 0000001 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Basic Formal Ontology should match this regular expression:
^BFO:\d{7}$
Example CURIE: BFO:0000001

Ontology

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

Appears In (20) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 ): ADO AGRO AISM CDNO COLAO DUO ECOCORE EPIO FOODON FOVT HSO LEPAO MCO ONS PCL PCO PSDO RBO XPO ZP
In Collection: ASKEM Epidemiology Prefixes NDFI4Cat Collection

Metaregistry Basic Formal Ontology

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`BFO`
AgroPortal	`agroportal`	`BFO`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`BFO`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`BFO`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.wcpd6f`
GO	`go`	`BFO`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`bfo`
OLS	`ols`	`bfo`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`BFO`

RDF Information

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

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

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE BFO:0000001 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
Basic Formal Ontology	`bfo`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
Basic Formal Ontology (RDF)	`rdf`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/bfo:0000001
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/bfo/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/BFO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("bfo")
'2019-08-26'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("bfo")
'CC-BY-4.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("bfo")
'http://ifomis.org/bfo/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("bfo")
'https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO'

Get the OBO download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_obo_download("bfo")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.obo'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("bfo")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("bfo")
'Barry Smith'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("bfo")
'phismith@buffalo.edu'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("bfo")
'phismith'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("bfo")
'0000-0003-1384-116X'