XAO represents the anatomy and development of the African frogs Xenopus laevis and tropicalis.

Prefix

xao

Preferred Prefix

XAO

Keywords

anatomy developmental biology life cycle life cycle stage life science morphology obo ontology structure

Version

2024-08-23

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Erik Segerdell   0000-0002-9611-1279   seger

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0004486   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

XAO:0004486

Publications

• 2013 Enhanced XAO: the ontology of Xenopus anatomy and development underpins more accurate annotation of gene expression and queries on Xenbase
• 2008 An ontology for Xenopus anatomy and development

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

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

XPO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

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

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/XAO_$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 0004486 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Xenopus Anatomy Ontology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.