Ontologies
BFO
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
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Last submission date August 27, 2019
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General information

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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URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BFO
https://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/BFO

Dates

Creation date

August 27, 2019

Submission date

August 27, 2019

Persons and organizations

Contact

Barry Smith

Contributor

Yongqun (Oliver) He
Pierre Grenon
Jonathan Bona
Ludger Jansen
Ron Rudnicki
Mauricio Almeida
Mark Ressler
Holger Stenzhorn
Bill Duncan
David Osumi-Sutherland
Melanie Courtot
Janna Hastings
Jie Zheng
Selja Seppälä
Leonard Jacuzzo
Christopher Mungall
Bjoern Peters
Randall Dipert
James A. Overton
Thomas Bittner
Larry Hunter
Werner Ceusters
Albert Goldfain
Barry Smith
Stefan Schulz
Fabian Neuhaus
Mathias Brochhausen
Alan Ruttenberg

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Methodology and provenance

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OWL API

Community

Repository

https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO
https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO

Bug database

https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues
https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/issues

Mailing list

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bfo-discuss

Notes

The BSD license on the BFO project site refers to code used to build BFO., This BFO 2.0 version represents a major update to BFO and is not strictly backwards compatible with BFO 1.1. The previous OWL version of BFO, version 1.1.1 will remain available at http://ifomis.org/bfo/1.1 and will no longer be updated. The BFO 2.0 OWL is a classes-only specification. The incorporation of core relations has been held over for a later version., the bfo2 owl discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-owl-devel, the bfo2 discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-devel, the tracking google doc http://goo.gl/IlrEE, and the current version of the bfo2 reference http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/bfo2-reference.docx. This ontology is generated from a specification at https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/ontology/owl-group/specification/ and with the code that generates the OWL version in https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/tree/master/src/tools/. A very early version of BFO version 2 in CLIF is at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/dev/bfo.clif.

Groups

OBO Foundry

Content

Identifier pattern

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_[0-9]{7}
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_[0-9]{7}

Preferred namespace URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_

Preferred namespace prefix

bfo

Example of resource

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000140
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000140

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