Uberon is an integrated cross-species anatomy ontology representing a variety of entities classified according to traditional anatomical criteria such as structure, function and developmental lineage. The ontology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype and expression data.

Prefix

uberon

Preferred Prefix

UBERON

Alternative Prefixes

UBERON Uber-anatomy ontology Uberon

Keywords

anatomy developmental biology life science obo ontology taxonomy

Version

2022-09-30

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON @uberanat

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Uber Anatomy Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

2005080   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Uber Anatomy Ontology should match this regular expression:
^uberon:\d+$

Example CURIE

uberon:2005080

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 Uber Anatomy Ontology, the banana looks like UBERON:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like UBERON:2005080 (instead of the canonical form 2005080) and CURIEs for this resource that look like uberon:UBERON:2005080 (instead of the canonical form uberon:2005080). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2014 Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon.
• 2012 Uberon, an integrative multi-species anatomy ontology.

Depends On (4) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

CHEBI CL GO PR

Appears In (26) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AISM AMPHX CHIRO CL CLO CLYH COLAO CTENO ECAO ECOCORE ECTO ENVO FOODON FOVT GENEPIO GO HSO LEPAO MAXO MCO MFMO ONS PCL PLANA PORO ZP

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 12 mappings to external registries for uberon with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE uberon:2005080 is used to demonstrate the provides available for uberon. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.