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| Resource Name | Proper Citation | Abbreviations | Resource Type |
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MeGO Resource Report Resource Website |
MeGO (RRID:SCR_000110) | MeGO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. Gene Ontology dedicated to the functions of mobile genetic elements. The terms defined are used to annotate phage and plasmid protein families in ACLAME. Note: The phage ontology PhiGO has now been incorporated in MeGO and can thus be accessed in MeGO version 1.0 and up. | phage, plasmid, protein family, mobile genetic element, obo |
is listed by: BioPortal is related to: OBO is related to: AmiGO is related to: Gene Ontology has parent organization: A Classification of Mobile genetic Elements |
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | nlx_156939 | SCR_000110 | Mobile Genetic Element Ontology | 2026-09-05 06:24:13 | 0 | |||||||
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EnvO Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
EnvO (RRID:SCR_000182) | EnvO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Community ontology for the concise, controlled description of environmental features and habitats. It provides a structured vocabulary that is designed to support the annotation of any organism or biological sample with environment descriptors. EnvO contains terms for biomes, environmental features, and environmental material. | biome, environmental feature, environmental material, environment, habitat |
is listed by: BioPortal is related to: Gramene |
The community can contribute to this resource | nlx_153832 | SCR_000182 | Environment Ontology | 2026-09-05 06:24:15 | 20 | |||||||
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Breast Cancer Grading Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Breast Cancer Grading Ontology (RRID:SCR_006658) | BCGO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology that assigns a grade to a tumor starting from the 3 criteria of the NGS | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | Breast Cancer | nlx_157343 | SCR_006658 | 2026-09-05 06:25:58 | 0 | ||||||||
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Sleep Domain Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Sleep Domain Ontology (RRID:SCR_006808) | SDO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An application ontology for the domain of Sleep Medicine. | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | nlx_157590 | SCR_006808 | 2026-09-05 06:26:01 | 0 | |||||||||
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Cell Behavior Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Cell Behavior Ontology (RRID:SCR_007055) | CBO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology that describes multi-cell computational models. In particular to describe both the existential behaviors of cells (spatiality, growth, movement, adhesion, death, ...) and computational models of those behaviors. | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | nlx_157353 | http://cbo.biocomplexity.indiana.edu/cbo/ | SCR_007055 | 2026-09-05 06:26:06 | 1 | ||||||||
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Cancer Chemoprevention Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Cancer Chemoprevention Ontology (RRID:SCR_006966) | CANCO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | A vocabulary that is able to describe and semantically interconnect the different paradigms of the cancer chemoprevention domain. | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | Cancer | nlx_157350 | SCR_006966 | 2026-09-05 06:26:04 | 0 | ||||||||
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Clusters of Orthologous Groups Analysis Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Clusters of Orthologous Groups Analysis Ontology (RRID:SCR_007232) | CAO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology designed for supporting the COG enrichment study by using Fisher''s exact test | owl |
is listed by: BioPortal has parent organization: COG |
nlx_157366 | http://cao.sourceforge.net/ | SCR_007232 | COG Analysis Ontology, Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) Analysis Ontology | 2026-09-05 06:26:08 | 2 | |||||||
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Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis Ontology (RRID:SCR_007067) | CTX | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology that represents CTX phenotypes, genetic variants, and bidirectional relationships between them though a patient model. The CTX ontology was built reusing the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and the Snomed ct ontologies. A set of temporal clinical manifestations are semantically annotated with a domain phenotype ontology and registered with a time-stamped value. | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | nlx_157360 | SCR_007067 | 2026-09-05 06:26:06 | 0 | |||||||||
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HGNC Resource Report Resource Website 1000+ mentions |
HGNC (RRID:SCR_002827) | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, database | Only worldwide authority that provides standardized nomenclature, i.e. gene names and symbols (short form abbreviations), for all known human genes, and stores all approved symbols in the HGNC database. Approved human gene nomenclature. Database of gene symbols and names. Manually curated genes into groups based on shared characteristics such as homology, function or phenotype. Data for protein-coding genes, pseudogenes and non-coding RNAs. | gene, owl, gene symbol, phenotype, nomenclature, gene family, gene groups, genomic, proteomic, ortholog, web service, locus, protein coding, genetics, gold standard, bio.tools, FASEB list, GCBR, ELIXIR Core Data Resource, DRKB |
is used by: Nowomics is used by: Cytokine Registry is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: re3data.org is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: Debian is related to: Rat Gene Symbol Tracker is related to: INFEVERS is related to: VGNC has parent organization: University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine; Cambridge; United Kingdom |
NHGRI U24HG003345 | PMID:36243972 PMID:32747822 PMID:34615987 PMID:33152070 |
Free, Freely available | biotools:genenames.org, nif-0000-02955, r3d100010901 | http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HUGO, https://bio.tools/genenames.org, https://doi.org/10.17616/R3XC80 | SCR_002827 | HUGO symbols, HGNC Database, HGNC - HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, Human Genome Organization Gene Symbols | 2026-09-05 06:24:54 | 1134 | |||||
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International Classification for Nursing Practice Resource Report Resource Website |
International Classification for Nursing Practice (RRID:SCR_003099) | ICNP | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology of the international classification for nursing practice. | owl | is listed by: BioPortal | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_157445 | SCR_003099 | 2026-09-05 06:24:58 | 0 | ||||||||
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Spider Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Spider Ontology (RRID:SCR_003117) | SPD | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology for spider comparative biology including anatomical parts (e.g. leg, claw), behavior (e.g. courtship, combing) and products (i.g. silk, web, borrow). | obo, anatomy, organismal, behavior, product, spider |
is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: OBO has parent organization: Tree of Life: Phylogeny of Spiders |
Free, Freely available | nlx_157595 | http://obo.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/obo/obo/ontology/anatomy/gross_anatomy/animal_gross_anatomy/spider/spider_comparative_biology.obo | SCR_003117 | 2026-09-05 06:24:58 | 1 | |||||||
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Interaction Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Interaction Ontology (RRID:SCR_003055) | IXNO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology to enable curation of chemical-gene and chemical-protein interactions for the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD), a freely available resource that aims to promote understanding and novel hypothesis development about the effects of the environment on human health. | obo |
is listed by: BioPortal has parent organization: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) |
Free, Freely available | nlx_157444 | SCR_003055 | 2026-09-05 06:24:57 | 0 | ||||||||
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Mental Functioning Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Mental Functioning Ontology (RRID:SCR_003245) | MF, MFO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology for mental functioning, including mental processes such as cognition and traits such as intelligence, and related diseases and disorders. It is developed in the context of the Ontology for General Medical Science and the Basic Formal Ontology. The project is being developed in collaboration between the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University at Buffalo, USA. The project is being developed with full involvement of all relevant communities, following best practices laid out by the OBO Foundry. Efforts are currently underway to align with related projects including the Behaviour Ontology, the Cognitive Atlas, the Cognitive Paradigm Ontology and the Neural Electro Magnetic Ontologies. | mental functioning, mental process, cognition, trait, psychology, neuroscience, owl |
is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: Google Code is listed by: OBO is related to: Information Artifact Ontology is related to: Emotion Ontology is related to: Emotion Ontology has parent organization: University at Buffalo; New York; USA |
Free, Freely available | nlx_157305 | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mf.owl | SCR_003245 | mental-functioning-ontology | 2026-09-05 06:25:00 | 1 | ||||||
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Emotion Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Emotion Ontology (RRID:SCR_003272) | MFOEM | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology of affective phenomena such as emotions, moods, appraisals and subjective feelings, designed to support interdisciplinary research by providing unified annotations. The ontology is a domain specialization of the broader Mental Functioning Ontology. | owl, affect, emotion, mood, appraisal, feeling, health, ontology |
is listed by: Google Code is listed by: OBO is listed by: BioPortal is related to: Mental Functioning Ontology is related to: Mental Functioning Ontology |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_157396 | https://github.com/jannahastings/emotion-ontology | SCR_003272 | 2026-09-05 06:25:00 | 0 | |||||||
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Vertebrate Trait Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Vertebrate Trait Ontology (RRID:SCR_003214) | VT | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | A controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms. | trait, morphology, physiology, development, obo |
is listed by: BioPortal is related to: monarch-ontologies is related to: Rat Genome Database (RGD) is related to: Animal QTLdb is related to: Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) has parent organization: SourceForge |
PMID:23937709 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_156940 | SCR_003214 | VT Ontology | 2026-09-05 06:24:59 | 0 | ||||||
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Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology (RRID:SCR_003361) | KISAO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology that classifies algorithms available for the simulation of models in biology, their characteristics and the parameters required for their use. | owl, algorithm, simulation |
is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: OBO has parent organization: BioModels |
PMID:22027554 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_157456 | https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/KISAO | SCR_003361 | 2026-09-05 06:25:02 | 0 | ||||||
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Experimental Conditions Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Experimental Conditions Ontology (RRID:SCR_003306) | XCO | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology designed to represent the conditions under which physiological and morphological measurements are made both in the clinic and in studies involving humans or model organisms. | obo, clinical, physiology, morphology, measurement |
is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: OBO has parent organization: Medical College of Wisconsin; Wisconsin; USA |
PMID:22654893 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_157401 | ftp://rgd.mcw.edu/pub/ontology/experimental_condition/experimental_condition.obo, http://sourceforge.net/projects/phenoonto/ | SCR_003306 | Experimental condition ontology | 2026-09-05 06:25:01 | 1 | |||||
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National Center for Biomedical Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
National Center for Biomedical Ontology (RRID:SCR_003304) | NCBO | data or information resource, database, organization portal, portal, training resource | Organization that provides biomedical researchers with online tools and a web portal enabling them to access, review, and integrate disparate ontological resources in all aspects of biomedical investigation and clinical practice. A major focus of the work involves the use of biomedical ontologies to aid in the management and analysis of data derived from complex experiments. | biomedical ontology, biomedical software tools |
is used by: DisGeNET is related to: Protege is related to: National Centers for Biomedical Computing has parent organization: National Centers for Biomedical Computing is parent organization of: BioPortal is parent organization of: PROTOTYPE - Suspected Overlap Among OBO Foundry Candidate Ontologies is parent organization of: Bio-Mixer |
NHGRI U54 HG004028 | PMID:21672956 PMID:23734708 |
Free, Freely available | nif-0000-31891 | SCR_003304 | 2026-09-05 06:25:01 | 28 | ||||||
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NEMO Ontology Resource Report Resource Website |
NEMO Ontology (RRID:SCR_003386) | NEMO Ontology | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | Ontology that describes classes of event-related brain potentials (ERP) and their properties, including spatial, temporal, and functional (cognitive / behavioral) attributes, and data-level attributes (acquisition and analysis parameters). Its aim is to support data sharing, logic-based queries and mapping/integration of patterns across data from different labs, experiment paradigms, and modalities (EEG/MEG). | eeg, meg, owl, event-related potential, cognitive, behavioral, data sharing, erp |
is listed by: BioPortal is related to: NEMO Analysis Toolkit has parent organization: Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies (NEMO) Project has parent organization: SourceForge |
NIH | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nif-0000-32927 | http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NEMO, http://sourceforge.net/projects/nemoontologies/ | http://nemo.nic.uoregon.edu/wiki/NEMO#NEMO_Ontology | SCR_003386 | Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontology | 2026-09-05 06:25:02 | 0 | ||||
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Chemical Information Ontology Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Chemical Information Ontology (RRID:SCR_003290) | CHEMINF | controlled vocabulary, data or information resource, ontology | An ontology that aims to establish a standard in representing chemical information including chemical structure and the ability to richly describe chemical properties, whether intrinsic or computed. It includes terms for the descriptors commonly used in cheminformatics software applications and the algorithms which generate them. | owl, biochemistry, chemistry, chemical structure, chemical property, structure, property, molecular |
is listed by: BioPortal is listed by: OBO is listed by: Google Code has parent organization: European Bioinformatics Institute |
PMID:21991315 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_157362 | http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/CHEMINF, http://semanticchemistry.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ontology/cheminf.owl | SCR_003290 | 2026-09-05 06:25:01 | 2 |
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