The OBO Relation Ontology provides consistent and unambiguous formal definitions of the relational expressions used in biomedical ontologies.

Prefix

ro

Preferred Prefix

RO

Alternative Prefixes

obo_rel oborel RO_proposed_relation

Keywords

natural science obo ontology relations

Version

2022-10-26

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0002533   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

ro:0002533

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 Relation Ontology, the banana looks like RO_. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like RO_0002533 (instead of the canonical form 0002533) and CURIEs for this resource that look like ro:RO_0002533 (instead of the canonical form ro:0002533). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2014 Structuring research methods and data with the research object model: genomics workflows as a case study.
• 2005 Relations in biomedical ontologies.

Appears In (33) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO AISM CDNO CL CLAO CLYH COLAO CTENO ECAO ECOCORE ECTO ENVO FOODON FOVT GENEPIO GO HSO LEPAO MAXO ONS ONTOAVIDA PCL PCO PLANA PLANP PORO PROCO PSDO PSO RBO UPA XPO ZP

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 14 mappings to external registries for ro with 4 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE ro:0002533 is used to demonstrate the provides available for ro. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.