Registry Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine

COB brings together key terms from a wide range of OBO projects to improve interoperability.

Prefix: cob
Preferred Prefix: COB
Keywords: obo ontology
Version: 2025-02-20
License: CC0-1.0
Links: Homepage Repository OWL
Contact: Bjoern Peters 0000-0002-8457-6693 bpeters42
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local identifiers in Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: 0000080 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine should match this regular expression:
^COB:\d{7}$
Example CURIE: COB:0000080

Metaregistry Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`COB`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`COB`
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	`cob`
OLS	`ols`	`cob`
OntoBee	`ontobee`	`COB`

RDF Information

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

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

Providers

Suggest

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0000080 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine	`cob`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000080
Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine (RDF)	`rdf`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000080
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/cob:0000080
OBO Foundry	`obofoundry`	http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000080
Ontology Lookup Service	`ols`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/cob/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000080
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/COB/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000080

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("cob")
'2025-02-20'

This name annotation was originally annotated in OBO Foundry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("cob")
'Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("cob")
'CC0-1.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("cob")
'https://obofoundry.org/COB/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("cob")
'https://github.com/OBOFoundry/COB'

Get the OWL download link:

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

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("cob")
'Bjoern Peters'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("cob")
'bpeters@lji.org'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("cob")
'bpeters42'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("cob")
'0000-0002-8457-6693'