Ontology of Biological Attributes

A collection of biological attributes (traits) covering all kingdoms of life.

OntoBee AberOWL OLS BioPortal Bioregistry

A collection of biological attributes (traits) covering all kingdoms of life. Interoperable with VT (vertebrate trait ontology) and TO (plant trait ontology). Extends PATO.

Usages
User
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/
Description
OBA terms are used by the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog for phenotypic trait annotation.
Type
annotation
Examples
age of onset of depressive disorder
Publications
User
https://platform.opentargets.org
Description
OBA trait terms facilitate computational drug target identification via the Open Targets Platform.
Type
Database
Examples
age of onset of Alzheimer disease
Publications
User
https://eol.org/traitbank
Description
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) TraitBank takes advantage of the well-axiomatised OBA terms to infer traits in biodiversity data and to improve their search functionality.
Type
Database
Examples
cell size http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_0000055
Publications
User
https://futres.org/
Description
OBA terms are used by the Functional Trait Resource for Environmental Studies (FuTRES) for the annotation of measurable traits in vertebrates.
Type
annotation
Examples
body length
Publications