Ontologies, schemas & standards · across every domain
A curated, automatically evaluated catalog of ontologies, schemas, vocabularies and data standards across the sciences, from biomedicine and earth science to chemistry, engineering and the humanities. Every entry is scored against the FAIR principles, ontology quality, maintenance and community adoption, with the exact version evaluated and full provenance.
Cross-domain fit
Each line joins two domains that share ontologies or schemas, either because one resource is used in both, or because a resource in one imports a resource in the other. Thicker lines mean more sharing. Foundational ontologies, units and metadata vocabularies are the bridges.
The Cell Ontology is designed as a structured controlled vocabulary for cell types. The ontology was constructed for use by the model organism and other bioinformatics databases, incorporating cell types from prokaryotes to mammals, and includes plants and fungi.
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) project is developing an integrated ontology for the description of biological and clinical investigations. The ontology will represent the design of an investigation, the protocols and instrumentation used, the material used, the data generated and the type analysis performed on it. Currently OBI is being built under the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).
Uberon is an integrated cross-species anatomy ontology representing a variety of entities classified according to traditional anatomical criteria such as structure, function and developmental lineage. The ontology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype and expression data.
The Mondo Disease Ontology (Mondo) aims to harmonize disease definitions across the world.
The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology (MP) classifies and organises phenotypic information related to the mouse and other mammalian species. This ontology has been applied to mouse phenotype descriptions in various databases allowing comparisons of data from diverse mammalian sources. It can facilitate in the identification of appropriate experimental disease models, and aid in the discovery of candidate disease genes and molecular signaling pathways.
The Gene Ontology project provides a controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes in any organism.
Ontologies that aim to provide semantic specifications for units of measure, quantity kind, dimensions and data types.
A battery interface domain ontology based on EMMO.
A domain ontology on food and bioproduct processing and characterization that is a specialization of the PO2 ontology (Process and Observation Ontology).
A data model for managing information about chemical entities, ranging from atoms through molecules to complex mixtures.
A structured vocabulary and annotation system for describing experimental events in time-series data such as EEG, MEG, fMRI and behavior.
The Vaccine Ontology (VO) is a community-based biomedical ontology in the domain of vaccines and vaccination. VO aims to standardize vaccine types and annotations, integrate various vaccine data, and support computer-assisted reasoning. The VO supports basic vaccine R&D and clinical vaccine usage. VO is being developed as a community-based ontology with support and collaborations from the vaccine and bio-ontology communities.
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