An ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies.

Prefix

bspo

Preferred Prefix

BSPO

Version

2021-10-13

Links

Homepage OBO OWL

Contact

cjmungall@lbl.gov

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000029   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

BSPO:0000029

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for bspo.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bspo:0000029 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bspo. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.