An ontology for respresenting spatial concepts, anatomical axes, gradients, regions, planes, sides and surfaces. These concepts can be used at multiple biological scales and in a diversity of taxa, including plants, animals and fungi. The BSPO is used to provide a source of anatomical location descriptors for logically defining anatomical entity classes in anatomy ontologies.

Prefix

bspo

Preferred Prefix

BSPO

Keywords

anatomy functional domain life science obo ontology phenomics phenotype physiology systems biology

Version

2023-05-27

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000029   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

BSPO:0000029

Publications

2014 Nose to tail, roots to shoots: spatial descriptors for phenotypic diversity in the Biological Spatial Ontology

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

Appears In (6) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AISM COLAO FOVT LEPAO UBERON ZP

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 8 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/BSPO_$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 0000029 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Biological Spatial 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.