Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
OWL
Last submission date August 27, 2019

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BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which overlaps with that of DOLCE and SUMO. Unlike these, however, it is narrowly focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains. BFO is the upper level ontology upon which OBO Foundry ontologies are built. See more...
Initial created on August 27, 2019. For additional information, contact Barry Smith (phismith@buffalo.edu).

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl
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https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BFO
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BFO
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