Registry Common Anatomy Reference Ontology

The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) is being developed to facilitate interoperability between existing anatomy ontologies for different species, and will provide a template for building new anatomy ontologies.

Prefix: caro
Preferred Prefix: CARO
Keywords: anatomy life science obo ontology
Version: 2023-03-15
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON
Contact: Melissa Haendel 0000-0001-9114-8737 mellybelly
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in Common Anatomy Reference Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 0000000 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Common Anatomy Reference Ontology should match this regular expression:
^caro:\d{7}$
Example CURIE: caro:0000000
Publications: 2008 CARO – The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology

Ontology

Appears In (5) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 ): AISM COLAO EHDAA2 LEPAO PCO
In Collection: ASKEM Epidemiology Prefixes

Metaregistry Common Anatomy Reference Ontology

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

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`CARO`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`CARO`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`CARO`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.3kcgmr`
GO	`go`	`CARO`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`caro`
OLS	`ols`	`caro`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`CARO`

RDF Information

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

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

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE caro:0000000 is used to demonstrate the provides available for caro. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/caro:0000000
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CARO_0000000
Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/caro/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CARO_0000000
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/CARO/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CARO_0000000

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code	Name	URL
`obo.1`	Nonstandard OBO PURL	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ido.owl/CARO_0000000

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("caro")
'2023-03-15'

Get the license:

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

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("caro")
'https://github.com/obophenotype/caro/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("caro")
'https://github.com/obophenotype/caro'

Get the OBO download link:

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

Get the OWL download link:

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

Get the JSON download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_json_download("caro")
'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/caro.json'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("caro")
'Melissa Haendel'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("caro")
'haendel@ohsu.edu'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("caro")
'mellybelly'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("caro")
'0000-0001-9114-8737'