The OBO Foundry¶
Smith, B., Ashburner, M., Rosse, C., Bard, J., Bug, W., Ceusters, W., Goldberg, L. J., et al. (2007). The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nature Biotechnology.
Cited by¶
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Domain-specific¶
- Quality inherence
- In the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), the maintained upper ontology underlying the OBO Foundry biomedical ontologies
This sourceFounding statement of the OBO Foundry initiative, in which existing biomedical ontologies are reformed and new ones created under shared principles so that they are interoperable and logically well formed.
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“The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) consortium is pursuing a”
- In the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), the maintained upper ontology underlying the OBO Foundry biomedical ontologies
- Collaborative Maintenance
- Open scientific ontologies and controlled vocabularies — the home turf (OBO Foundry, Gene Ontology, EDAM, schema.org): this entry's five-pathway template was distilled from the practice here
This sourceOpen scientific ontologies and controlled vocabularies - the home turf (OBO Foundry, Gene Ontology, EDAM, schema.org), where the coordination principles were formulated.
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- Open scientific ontologies and controlled vocabularies — the home turf (OBO Foundry, Gene Ontology, EDAM, schema.org): this entry's five-pathway template was distilled from the practice here
- Open Availability
- Biomedical ontologies — the OBO Foundry open-availability principle requires ontologies to carry explicit licenses permitting cross-ontology composition and downstream tool development (Gene Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology).
This sourceThe OBO consortium's strategy of an evolving set of shared principles governing ontology development, with the Gene Ontology among the ontologies undergoing coordinated reform.
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“Existing OBO ontologies, including the Gene Ontology, are undergoing coordinated reform, and new ontologies are being created on the basis of an evolving set of shared principles governing ontology development.”
- Biomedical ontologies — the OBO Foundry open-availability principle requires ontologies to carry explicit licenses permitting cross-ontology composition and downstream tool development (Gene Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology).
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