FoodOn is a comprehensive and easily accessible global farm-to-fork ontology about food that accurately and consistently describes foods commonly known in cultures from around the world. It is a consortium-driven project built to interoperate with the The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry library of ontologies.

Prefix

foodon

Preferred Prefix

FOODON

Keywords

agriculture botany environmental science medicine obo ontology

Version

2022-02-01

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Damion Dooley   0000-0002-8844-9165   ddooley

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in The Food Ontology should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

03307879   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from The Food Ontology should match this regular expression:
^foodon:[0-9]{8}$

Example CURIE

foodon:03307879

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For The Food Ontology, the banana looks like FOODON:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like FOODON:03307879 (instead of the canonical form 03307879) and CURIEs for this resource that look like foodon:FOODON:03307879 (instead of the canonical form foodon:03307879). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2018 FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration.
• 2017 Context Is Everything: Harmonization of Critical Food Microbiology Descriptors and Metadata for Improved Food Safety and Surveillance.

Depends On (8) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

BFO CHEBI ENVO EO NCBITaxon OBI RO UBERON

Appears In (6) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO ENVO FOBI MAXO ONE ONS

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for foodon with 2 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE foodon:03307879 is used to demonstrate the provides available for foodon. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.