Biomedical Ontologies and Controlled Vocabularies

An upper level ontology to facilitate interoperability between existing anatomy ontologies for different species.

The Disease Ontology semantically integrates disease and medical vocabularies through extensive cross mapping of DO terms to MeSH, ICD, NCI’s thesaurus, SNOMED and OMIM.

A domain ontology that represents a coherent body of explicit declarative knowledge about human anatomy. Its ontological framework can be applied and extended to all other species.

A collaborative effort to address the need for consistent descriptions of gene products across databases. The GO represents information about biological processes, cellular components and molecular functions.

An ontology that represents phenotypic abnormalities encountered in human disease.

A set of interoperable ontologies covering the infectious disease domain. At the core of the set is a general Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO-Core) of entities relevant to both biomedical and clinical aspects of most infectious diseases. Sub-domain specific extensions of IDO-Core provide coverage of entities relevant to specific pathogens or diseases.

Concepts, definitions, terms, and resources for standardized description of microarray experiments.

A community effort to provide standard terms for annotating mammalian phenotypic data.

An integrated ontology for the description of life-science and clinical investigations.

A reference ontology for the annotation of the results of clinical trials.

An ontology based on the papers Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis and On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities. OGMS was formerly called the clinical phenotype ontology.

An ontology that can be used in conjunction with other ontologies such as GO or anatomical ontologies to refer to phenotypes.

An ontology to represent vaccine knowledge and support automated reasoning.