An ontology that formalizes IASP's definition of pain as both an unpleasant physical and emotional experience, and it provides terms and axioms to represent the multidimensional aspects of pain, such as temporality, quality, extent, biological mechanism, and anatomical location.
- Prefix
pain- Preferred Prefix
PAIN- Keywords
- biomedical science diffusion tensor imaging functional magnetic resonance imaging imaging life science magnetic resonance imaging neurobiology obo ontology pain
- Version
- 2026-08-13
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Links
- Homepage Repository OWL OBO JSON
- Publications
- 2015 Pain and Interoception Imaging Network (PAIN): A multimodal, multisite, brain-imaging repository for chronic somatic and visceral pain disorders
Identifier Standards
- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
- Missing LUI pattern
- Example Local Unique Identifier
- 0000036 Resolve
- Example CURIE
- PAIN:0000036
- Pattern for RDF URIs
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PAIN_$1
- Example RDF URI
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PAIN_0000036
Contacts
- Contact
-
Bill Duncan
0000-0001-9625-1899
wdduncan
Mappings to External Registries
Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
AberOWL
|
aberowl |
PAIN
|
|
BioPortal
|
bioportal |
PAIN
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.9fmyc7
|
|
OBO Foundry
|
obofoundry |
pain
|
|
OLS
|
ols |
pain
|
|
OntoBee
|
ontobee |
PAIN
|
Providers
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 0000036 is used to demonstrate the providers
available for The Pain Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.