Ontology about the development and life stages of the C. elegans

Prefix

wbls

Preferred Prefix

WBls

Alternative Prefixes

WBls

Keywords

development developmental biology life cycle life cycle stage life science obo ontology worm

Version

2025-04-01

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Chris Grove   0000-0001-9076-6015   chris-grove

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in C. elegans development ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000690   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from C. elegans development ontology should match this regular expression:
^WBls:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

WBls:0000690

Publications

2020 WormBase: a modern Model Organism Information Resource

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/WBls_$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 0000690 is used to demonstrate the providers available for C. elegans development 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.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.