An ontology of information entities, originally driven by work by the Ontology of Biomedical Investigation (OBI) digital entity and realizable information entity branch.

Prefix

iao

Preferred Prefix

IAO

Version

2020-12-09

Links

Homepage OWL

Contact

jiezheng@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000030   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Information Artifact Ontology should match this regular expression:
^IAO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

IAO:0000030

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for iao.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE iao:0000030 is used to demonstrate the provides available for iao. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.