An ontology to represent medically relevant actions, procedures, therapies, interventions, and recommendations.

Prefix

maxo

Preferred Prefix

MAXO

Keywords

medicine obo ontology rare disorder

Version

2025-04-24

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

Leigh Carmody   0000-0001-7941-2961   LCCarmody

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000008   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Action Ontology should match this regular expression:
^MAXO:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

MAXO:0000008

Publications

2023 The Medical Action Ontology: A Tool for Annotating and Analyzing Treatments and Clinical Management of Human Disease

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

Depends On (9) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

CHEBI FOODON GO HP IAO NBO OBI RO UBERON

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

ECTO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 9 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/MAXO_$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 0000008 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Medical Action 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.