The OBO namespace is the top-level namespace used by Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry ontologies.
- Prefix
obo- Preferred Prefix
obo- Keywords
- biology health ontology and terminology
- Links
- Homepage Repository
- Contact
- Nicolas Matentzoglu 0000-0002-7356-1779 matentzn
- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
- Missing LUI pattern
- Example Local Unique Identifiers
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uberon
Resolve
go Resolve
uberon.owl Resolve - Example CURIEs
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obo:uberon
obo:go
obo:uberon.owl - Publications
- 2007 The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration
- References
Metaregistry Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
| BioContext | biocontext |
OBO
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.847069
|
|
Integbio
|
integbio |
nbdc00305
|
|
LOV
|
lov |
obo
|
RDF Information
When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/$1
Providers
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 uberon is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.