Ontology for Biomedical Investigations
An integrated ontology for the description of life-science and clinical investigations
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) project is developing an integrated ontology for the description of life-science and clinical investigations.
- Browse OBI on Ontobee
- Download OBI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
- OBI homepage
- OBI mailing list
- To cite a journal article for OBI please use Bandrowski et al, PLOS ONE, 2016
- To refer to the most current information on the OBI project, please use the following: The OBI Consortium http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi
Publications
Products
| obi.owl | OBI | The full version of OBI in OWL format |
| obi.obo | OBI in OBO | The OBO-format version of OBI |
| obi/obi_core.owl | OBI Core | A collection of important high-level terms and their relations from OBI and other ontologies |
| obi/obi-base.owl | OBI Base module | Base module for OBI |
Usages
- User
- https://www.iedb.org
- Description
- The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) is funded by NIAID that catalogs experimental data on antibody and T cell epitopes studied in humans, non-human primates, and other animal species in the context of infectious disease, allergy, autoimmunity and transplantation.
- Examples
- A specific assay curated in the IEDB using the OBI:1110180 '3H-thymidine assay measuring epitope specific proliferation of T cells' ('3H-thymidine')
- User
- https://www.encodeproject.org/
- Description
- ENCODE is a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome, including elements that act at the protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which a gene is active.
- Examples
- A specific assay annotated in ENCODE using OBI:0000716 'ChiP-seq'
- User
- https://genelab-data.ndc.nasa.gov/genelab/projects
- Description
- The NASA GeneLab data repository hosts space biology and space-related datasets funded by multiple space agencies around the world.
- Examples
- A specific assay annotated in NASA GeneLab using OBI:0001271 'RNA-seq assay'
- User
- https://app.nih-cfde.org/
- Description
- The CFDE is providing a centralized metadata resource to allow search across data coordination centers from multiple Common Fund programs.
- Examples
- OBI is used in CFDE to captures types of experiments with assay terms such as OBI:0003094 'fluorescence in-situ hybridization assay'
- User
- http://www.neuinfo.org
- Description
- NIF is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources, data, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.
- Examples
- A specific OBI term used to autocomplete in NIF search OBI:0100026 'organism'
- ID Space
- obi
- PURL
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Homepage
- http://obi-ontology.org
- Contact
- Bjoern Peters
- Repository
- https://github.com/obi-ontology/obi
- Tracker
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi/tracker
- Domain
- investigations
- Mail List
- http://groups.google.com/group/obi-users
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- Last Commit
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- OBO Review
- 2013 PDF
