The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities

作者：Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman E. Morrison, Barry Smith, Chris Mungall, Suzanna Lewis · 发表于：Journal of Biomedical Semantics · 年份：2013 · DOI：10.1186/2041-1480-4-43 · 被引用次数：383 · 研究领域：Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies、Semantic Web and Ontologies、Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

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".