# List of OBO Foundry ontologies

This is a list of ontologies that are part of the OBO Foundry as of January2020.

## OBO Foundry ontologies

| Title | Prefix | Description |
| Agronomy Ontology | AGRO | Ontology of concepts relevant to agronomy experiments. |
| An ontology of core ecological entities | ECOCORE | An ontology for ecological entities. |
| Anatomical Entity Ontology | AEO | Ontology of anatomical structures that expand CARO, the Common Anatomy Reference Ontology. |
| Antibiotic Resistance Ontology | ARO | Ontology for antibiotic resistance genes and mutations. |
| Apollo Structured Vocabulary | APOLLO-SV | Ontology for enabling interoperability of epidemic models and public health application software. |
| Ascomycete phenotype ontology | APO | A structured controlled vocabulary for the phenotypes of Ascomycete fungi. |
| Basic Formal Ontology | BFO | The upper-level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built. |
| Beta Cell Genomics Ontology | BCGO | An application ontology built for beta cell genomic studies. |
| Biological Collections Ontology | BCO | An ontology for biodiversity data. |
| Biological Imaging Methods Ontology | FBBI | Ontology for methods involved in biomedical imaging, including preparation and acquisition. |
| Biological Spatial Ontology | BSPO | An ontology for representing spatial concepts used in biology. |
| BRENDA tissue / enzyme source | BTO | An ontology for the source of enzymes. |
| C. elegans development ontology (see WormBase) | WBLS | An ontology for the development of Caenorhabditis elegans. |
| C. elegans Gross Anatomy Ontology (see WormBase) | WBBT | An ontology for the anatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans. |
| C. elegans phenotype (see WormBase) | WBPHENOTYPE | An ontology for the phenotypes of Caenorhabditis elegans. |
| Cardiovascular Disease Ontology | CVDO | An ontology for concepts related to cardiovascular diseases. |
| Cell Line Ontology | CLO | Ontology to describe cell lines. |
| Cell Ontology | CL | Ontology for metazoan cell types. |
| Chemical Entities of Biological Interest | CHEBI | Ontology of small molecular entities of biological interest. |
| Chemical Information Ontology | CHEMINF | Ontology for descriptors used in chemoinformatics databases. |
| Chemical Methods Ontology | CHMO | An ontology for the methods used in chemical experiments. |
| Clinical LABoratory Ontology | LABO | An ontology of prescriptions and reports in clinical laboratories. |
| Clinical measurement ontology | CMO | Ontology to classify clinical measurements of experimental animals. |
| Common Anatomy Reference Ontology | CARO | An ontology to improve interoperability between anatomy ontologies for different organisms. |
| Comparative Data Analysis Ontology | CDAO | Ontology of concepts and relations relevant to evolutionary comparative analysis, such as phylogenetic trees. |
| Confidence Information Ontology | CIO | An ontology to describe confidence information in sequence annotations. |
| Contributor Role Ontology | CRO | An ontology for the diverse roles behind a scientific research article. |
| Ctenophore Ontology | CTENO | An anatomical and developmental ontology for ctenophores (Comb Jellies). |
| Dictyostelium discoideum anatomy | DDANAT | A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy of the slime-mold Dictyostelium discoideum. |
| Dictyostelium discoideum phenotype ontology | DDPHENO | An ontology for phenotypes of the slime-mould Dictyostelium discoideum. |
| Drosophila development | FBDV | An ontology of the development of Drosophila melanogaster. |
| Drosophila gross anatomy | FBBT | An ontology for the anatomy of Drosophila melanogaster. |
| Drosophila Phenotype Ontology | FBCV | An ontology of common Drosophila phenotypes. |
| Drug-drug Interaction and Drug-drug Interaction Evidence Ontology | DIDEO | Ontology for drug–drug interaction evidence. |
| Evidence & Conclusion Ontology | ECO | An ontology for types evidence used to support scientific claims. |
| eagle-i resource ontology | ERO | An ontology of research equipment, protocols and consumables. |
| Emotion Ontology | MFOEM | An ontology of emotions, moods, and other kinds of feelings. |
| Environment Ontology | ENVO | Ontology of environmental features and habitats. |
| Experimental condition ontology | XCO | An ontology for the different conditions in which experimental measurements are taken. |
| Exposure Ontology | EXO | Ontology to describe exposure to environmental factors (such as cigarette smoke) that might influence clinical outcomes. |
| Fission Yeast Phenotype Ontology | FYPO | An ontology of phenotypes of fission yeast. |
| Flora Phenotype Ontology | FLOPO | An ontology for traits and phenotypes of flowering plants. |
| FlyBase Controlled Vocabulary | FBCV | An ontology to support the FlyBase project. |
| Food Ontology | FOODON | An ontology to represent entities that play a food role or related to foods. |
| Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (subset) | FMAO | Subset of the Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology. |
| Fungal Anatomy Ontology | FAO | An ontology for the anatomy of fungi. |
| Gazetteer | GAZ | An ontology that acts as a gazetteer (geographical dictionary). |
| Gene Ontology | GO | An ontology for describing the function of genes and gene products. |
| Genomic Epidemiology Ontology | GENEPIO | An ontology for foodborne pathogens and associated outbreaks. |
| Genotype Ontology | GENO | An ontology for genotypes and their related phenotypes and diseases. |
| Geographical Entity Ontology | GEO | An ontology of geographical entities. |
| Glycan Naming Ontology | GNOME | An ontology for glycans based on GlyTouCan. |
| Homology Ontology | HOM | An ontology for concepts related to homology. |
| Human Ancestry Ontology | HANCESTRO | An ontology of ancestry concepts used in the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies. |
| Human Developmental Stages | HSAPDV | An ontology of stages of the human life. |
| Human Disease Ontology | DO | An ontology for describing human diseases. |
| Human Phenotype Ontology | HPO | An ontology for human phenotypes in hereditary and non-hereditary diseases. |
| HUPO-PSI cross-linking and derivatization reagents controlled vocabulary | PSI-MS | An ontology for reagents used to cross-link molecules in mass spectrometry experiments. |
| Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology | HAO | An ontology of the anatomy of the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants). |
| Hypertension Ontology | HTN | An ontology for clinical data about hypertension. |
| Infectious Disease Ontology | IDO | A set of ontologies related to infectious diseases. |
| Information Artifact Ontology | IAO | An ontology of information entities. |
| Informed Consent Ontology | ICO | An ontology for concepts related to informed consent, such as forms and policies. |
| Integrative and Conjugative Element Ontology | ICEO | An ontology of bacterial integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs). |
| Interaction Network Ontology | INO | An ontology for gene-gene interactions. |
| Malaria Ontology | IDOMAL | An ontology for concepts related to malaria. |
| Mammalian Feeding Muscle Ontology | MFMO | An ontology for the mammalian muscles that play a role in feeding behavior. |
| Mammalian Phenotype Ontology | MP | Standard terms for annotating mammalian phenotypic data. |
| Mass spectrometry ontology | MI | An ontology for concepts to describe mass spectrometry in the context of proteomics. |
| Measurement method ontology | MMO | An ontology for methods of clinical and laboratory measurements. |
| Medaka Developmental Stages | OlatDv | An ontology of life stages for the medaka fish. |
| Mental Disease Ontology | MFOMD | An ontology for mental diseases. |
| Mental Functioning Ontology | MFO | An ontology for concepts related to mental functioning. |
| MHC Restriction Ontology | MRO | An ontology for Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) restriction in experiments. |
| MIAPA Ontology | MIAPA | An ontology for phylogenetic data. |
| Microbial Conditions Ontology | MCO | An ontology for microbial growth conditions. |
| Minimum PDDI Information Ontology | MPIO | An ontology of the minimum information to describe drug–drug interactions. |
| Molecular Interactions Controlled Vocabulary | MI | An ontology for concepts related to the study of protein-protein interactions. |
| Mondo Disease Ontology | MONDO | An ontology for the integration of information on disease. |
| Mosquito gross anatomy ontology (VectorBase) | TGMA | An ontology for the anatomy of mosquitoes. |
| Mouse adult gross anatomy ontology | EMAPA | An ontology for the adult anatomy of the mouse (Mus). |
| Mouse Developmental Stages | MmusDv | An ontology of stages of the mouse (Mus) life. |
| Mouse gross anatomy and development, timed | EMAP | Ontology of anatomical structures of the mouse (Mus musculus). |
| Mouse Pathology Ontology | MPATH | An ontology of mouse pathology phenotypes. |
| Name Reaction Ontology | RXNO | An ontology for organic reactions in organic synthesis. |
| NCBI organismal classification | NCBITaxon | An ontology representation of the NCBI organismal taxonomy. |
| Neuro Behavior Ontology | NBO | An ontology of behavioral phenotypes of animals. |
| NOMEN - A nomenclatural ontology for biological names | NOMEN | An ontology of the rules of nomenclature for biological names. |
| Non-Coding RNA Ontology | NCRO | An ontology for non-coding RNA function. |
| Ontologized MIABIS | OMIABIS | An ontological version of MIABIS (Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing). |
| Ontology for Biobanking | OBIB | An ontology for concepts related to biobanks. |
| Ontology for Biomedical Investigations | OBI | An ontology which describes biological processes, cellular components and molecular functions in living organisms. |
| Ontology for General Medical Science | OGMS | An ontology for general aspects of medicine, with a focus on cancer. |
| Ontology for Parasite LifeCycle | OPL | A reference ontology for parasite life cycle stages. |
| Ontology of Adverse Events | OAE | An ontology for adverse events of drug regimens. |
| Ontology of Arthropod Circulatory Systems | OARCS | An ontology for the circulatory systems of arthropods. |
| Ontology of Biological and Clinical Statistics | OBCS | An ontology to describe statistical tools and methods used in biomedical investigation. |
| Ontology of Biological Attributes | OBA | An ontology for biological traits. |
| Ontology of Medically Related Social Entities | OMRSE | An ontology for entities (roles and organizations) related to healthcare. |
| Ontology of Microbial Phenotypes | OMP | An ontology of phenotypes of microorganisms. |
| Ontology of Organizational Structures of Trauma centers and Trauma systems | OOSTT | An ontology for the organizational structures of trauma centers and trauma systems. |
| Ontology of Precision Medicine and Investigation | OPMI | An ontology for concepts related to precision medicine. |
| Ontology of Prokaryotic Phenotypic and Metabolic Characters | MICRO | An ontology of prokaryotic phenotypic and metabolic characters. |
| Ontology of RNA Sequencing | ORNASEQ | An ontology to annotate RNA Sequencing experiments. |
| Ontology of Vaccine Adverse Events | OVAE | An ontology for adverse events of vaccines. |
| Pathogen Host Interaction Phenotype Ontology | PHIPO | An ontology of phenotypes that occur in pathogen-host interactions. |
| Pathogen Transmission Ontology | TRANS | An ontology for disease transmission processes. |
| Pathway ontology | PW | An ontology for annotating gene products to pathways. |
| Performance Summary Display Ontology | PSDO | An ontology for concepts related to performance information for teams and organizations. |
| Phenotype And Trait Ontology | FOBI | FOBI (Food-Biomarker Ontology) is an ontology to represent food intake data and associate it with metabolomic data. |
| Planaria Ontology | PLANA | An ontology for the anatomy and developmental stages of the planaria (Schmidtea mediterranea). |
| Planarian Phenotype Ontology | PLANP | An ontology for phenotypes of the planaria (Schmidtea mediterranea). |
| Plant Experimental Conditions Ontology | PECO | An ontology for concepts related to plant biology experiments. |
| Plant ontology | PO | An ontology and database resource that links plant traits to genomics data. |
| Plant Phenology Ontology | PPO | An ontology for describing the cyclic phenomena of plants. |
| Plant Trait Ontology | TO | An ontology for phenotypic traits in plants. |
| Platynereis Developmental Stages | PDUMDV | An ontology for life stages of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii. |
| Population and Community Ontology | PCO | An ontology for describing groups of interacting organisms. |
| Porifera Ontology | PORO | An ontology for the anatomy of sponges (Porifera) |
| Protein modification | MOD | An ontology for protein chemical modifications. |
| Protein Ontology | PRO | An ontological representation of protein-related entities. |
| Rat Strain Ontology | RS | An ontology for laboratorial rat strains. |
| Relation Ontology | RO | An ontology for relations between terms in the ontologies. |
| Scientific Evidence and Provenance Information Ontology | SEPIO | An ontology for the provenance of scientific claims and supporting evidence. |
| Sequence types and features ontology | SO | An ontology for annotation of sequences. |
| Software Ontology | SWO | An ontology to describe software applications with a focus on bioinformatics tools. |
| Spider Ontology | SPD | An ontology for anatomy and behavior of spiders as well as spider-derived products. |
| Symptom Ontology | SYMP | An ontology of disease symptoms. |
| Taxonomic rank vocabulary | TAXRANK | An ontology of taxonomic ranks in systematics. |
| Teleost taxonomy ontology | TTO | An ontology for the taxonomy of teleost fish. |
| The Data Use Ontology | DUO | Ontology for conditions of data use. |
| The Drug Ontology | DRON | An ontology for drug products. |
| The Ontology of Genes and Genomes | OGG | An ontology of genes and genomes of biological organisms. |
| The Oral Health and Disease Ontology | OHD | An ontology for the content of teeth-related health records. |
| The Prescription of Drugs Ontology | PDRO | An ontology for concepts related to prescription of drugs. |
| The Statistical Methods Ontology | STATO | An ontology for statistical methods, such as tests and experimental designs. |
| Tick Anatomy Ontology | TADS | An ontology for the anatomy of the tick families Ixodidae and Argasidae. |
| Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology | UBERON | An integrative, cross species ontology for anatomical terms. |
| Unified phenotype ontology (uPheno) | UPHENO | An ontology for unified phenotypical descriptictions. |
| Units of measurement ontology | UO | An ontology of metrical units, couplet to the PATO ontology. |
| Vaccination Informed Consent Ontology | VICO | An ontology of clinical informed consents focused on vaccination procedures. |
| Vaccine Ontology | VO | An ontology for concepts related to vaccines and vaccination. |
| Vertebrate Taxonomy Ontology | VTO | An ontology for the taxonomy of vertebrates. |
| Vertebrate Trait Ontology | VT | An ontology for traits covering vertebrates |
| VEuPathDB ontology | EUPATH | An ontology for the support of the Eukaryotic Pathogen, Host & Vector Genomics Resource. |
| Xenopus Anatomy Ontology | XAO | Ontology of the anatomy of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). |
| Xenopus Phenotype Ontology | XPO | An ontology for anatomical, cellular, and gene function phenotypes in African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). |
| Zebrafish anatomy and development ontology | ZFA | Ontology for the anatomy and development of the zebrafish (Danio rerio). |
| Zebrafish developmental stages ontology | ZFS | An ontology for developmental stages of the zebrafish (Danio rerio). |
| Zebrafish Experimental Conditions Ontology | ZECO | An ontology for experimental conditions used in zebrafish research and described in ZFIN. |
| Zebrafish Phenotype Ontology | ZP | An ontology for the phenotypes of the zebrafish (Danio rerio). |