Ontologies
BFO
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
OWL
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Last submission date August 28, 2024
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General information

The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a small, upper-level ontology that is designed for use in supporting information retrieval, analysis and integration in scientific and other domains. BFO is a genuine upper ontology. Thus it does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the coverage domains of the special sciences. BFO is used by more than 130 ontology-driven endeavors throughout the world. See more...
Initial created on August 26, 2019. For additional information, contact Bfo Discussion Group (http://groups.google.com/group/bfo-discuss).

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URI

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

Version IRI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2019-08-26/bfo.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2019-08-26/bfo.owl

BiodivPortal URI

https://biodivportal.gfbio.org/ontologies/BFO
https://biodivportal.gfbio.org/ontologies/BFO

Dates

Creation date

August 26, 2019

Submission date

August 28, 2024

Persons and organizations

Contact

BFO Discussion Group

Contributor

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

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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., Please see the project site https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO, 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.

Content

Example of resource

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

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