Registry Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies

The OBO namespace is the top-level namespace used by Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry ontologies.

Prefix
obo
Preferred Prefix
obo
Keywords
biology health ontology and terminology
Links
Homepage Repository @OBOFoundry
Contact
Nicolas Matentzoglu   0000-0002-7356-1779   matentzn
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifiers
uberon   Resolve
go   Resolve
uberon.owl   Resolve
Example CURIEs
obo:uberon
obo:go
obo:uberon.owl
Publications
2007 The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration
References
Metaregistry Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext OBO
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.847069
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc00305
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov obo
RDF Information

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

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

Providers

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

Name Metaprefix URI
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies obo http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon
Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/obo:uberon