The Population and Community Ontology (PCO) describes material entities, qualities, and processes related to collections of interacting organisms such as populations and communities. It is taxon neutral, and can be used for any species, including humans. The classes in the PCO are useful for describing evolutionary processes, organismal interactions, and ecological experiments. Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology.

Prefix

pco

Preferred Prefix

PCO

Keywords

biodiversity community care ecology evolution obo ontology population genetics social and behavioural science

Version

2021-05-03

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Ramona Walls   0000-0001-8815-0078   ramonawalls

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000021   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Population and Community Ontology should match this regular expression:
^PCO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

PCO:0000021

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

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

BFO CARO ENVO GO IAO NCBITaxon PATO RO

Appears In (2) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

ECOCORE ENVO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

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

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

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 0000021 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Population and Community Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.