The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

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; http://www.environmentontology.org) is a community-led,...

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Published in:Journal of biomedical semantics 2013-12, Vol.4 (1), p.43-43
Main Authors: Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Morrison, Norman, Smith, Barry, Mungall, Christopher J, Lewis, Suzanna E
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Analysis
BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biomes
Community ecology
Coral reefs
Ecosystems
Environmental aspects
Environmental conditions
Habitats
Mathematical & Computational Biology
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Motivation
Ontology
Population
Semantics
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Summary: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; http://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".
ISSN:2041-1480
2041-1480