The Software Ontology (SWO) is a resource for describing software tools, their types, tasks, versions, provenance and associated data. It contains detailed information on licensing and formats as well as software applications themselves, mainly (but not limited) to the bioinformatics community.

Prefix

swo

Preferred Prefix

SWO

Keywords

algorithm bioinformatics computer science obo ontology software workflow

Version

2023-03-05

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Allyson Lister   0000-0002-7702-4495   allysonlister

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000144   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Software ontology should match this regular expression:
^SWO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

SWO:0000144

Publications

2014 The Software Ontology (SWO): a resource for reproducibility in biomedical data analysis, curation and digital preservation

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

Appears In (1) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

MCRO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 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/SWO_$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 0000144 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Software ontology. 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.