The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

Buttigieg, Pier; Morrison, Norman; Smith, Barry; Mungall, Christopher J.; Lewis, Suzanna E.

doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-43

Title: The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Journal of Biomedical Semantics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-4-43· OSTI ID:1626676

Buttigieg, Pier ^[1]; Morrison, Norman ^[2]; Smith, Barry ^[3]; Mungall, Christopher J. ^[4]; Lewis, Suzanna E. ^[4]

Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (Germany). Alfred Wegener Inst. HGF-MPG Research Group on Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology
Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom). School of Computer Science
Univ. at Buffalo, NY (United States). Dept. of Philosophy
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

As biological and biomedical research increasingly reference the environmental context of the biological entities under study, the need for formalisation and standardisation of environment descriptors is growing. The Environment Ontology (ENVO; www.environmentontology.org) is a community-led, open project which seeks to provide an ontology for specifying a wide range of environments relevant to multiple life science disciplines and, through an open participation model, to accommodate the terminological requirements of all those needing to annotate data using ontology classes. This paper summarises ENVO’s motivation, content, structure, adoption, and governance approach. The ontology is available from http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl - an OBO format version is also available by switching the file suffix to “obo”.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division

Contributing Organization:: the ENVO Consortium

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1626676

Journal Information:: Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Vol. 4, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1480

Publisher:: BioMed CentralCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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